Switzerland deal to help Italy combat tax evasion

Italy and Switzerland have signed a deal to share information in a bid to tackle tax evasion. The deal offers a partial tax amnesty to Italians that have hidden cash in Switzerland.

£15 per hour for Swiss workers: Referendum on plans to introduce the world’s highest minimum wage has employers worried

Jasmin Eicher has already axed her only full-time employee to keep her shop afloat, which sells cards, candles and paper in a Zurich suburb.

Swiss banking secrecy has no place in globalised world'

Switzerland's bank secrecy laws and anonymous numbered accounts have a long and shameful history: They have been used to help criminals conceal illicit gains, to deny Holocaust survivors their stolen inheritances and to help the world's wealthy hide taxable income.