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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I’m Swiss and open to answer questions if you have any.

Has the country ever done anything to stop being "that country where rich assholes and all sorts of corrupt people have a secret bank account"?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not of our own volition, but we were luckily forced under threat of sanctions by the USA and EU to accept the OECD standard Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA). So now there is some form of automatic information flow to other countries tax authorities. But I don't understand the workings in detail.

Here's an article from that time (2016) that gives a good overview, but you'll have to use machine translation, as the english version of the article is way shorter and less informative: https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/politik/automatischer-informationsaustausch-in-steuerfragen_die-schweiz-begraebt-das-bankgeheimnis-auch-fuer-eu-buerger/42194104

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

The country? No. But remember we've always been (majority) governed by parties that are right-wing corporate lackeys. There's a lot of criticism of these practices from the left and even the center (sometimes), but those critics are unable to get majorities.