UBS Clients Prepare For The Worst
by Vidya Ram, Forbes.com
LONDON - UBS has pledged to fight against the Internal Revenue Service’s demand that it spill details of 52,000 clients suspected of having secret Swiss bank accounts. But its clients are preparing for the worst.
Some clients are already beginning to approach the IRS under its voluntary disclosure program. “We have been going to the IRS without giving names and explaining we represent the clients, to get assurances from the IRS that if they come forward and declare those assets they will not be prosecuted criminally,” says lawyer Ken Rubinstein, of New York-based Rubinstein & Rubinstein. “Unless they already have the client’s name, the IRS is agreeing to treat it as a civil matter.” Several other clients are converting their foreign accounts that aren’t compliant with U.S. law.
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