“Absolute compliance.” A plea for whistleblowers

A recent judgment could scare away potential whistleblowers. However, the financial supervisory authority Bafin is working on an anonymous reporting option. Johannes Fiala and Peter Schramm, who consider whistleblowers to be very important, should approve of this. Whistleblowers play an important role in monitoring the compliance of companies with the law – not least in […]

Unconstitutional taxation error

Tax evasion strategies put to the test Practical assistance in the evasion of income, especially from capital assets, has) apparently been part of the more or less tolerated business model of certain private banks, insurance companies, state banks or subsidiaries for decades. Abroad, such “institutions” are also called savings banks, institutions, trusts, cantonal banks, trustees […]