欧洲国家建立跨国系统以遏制逃税

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 　　PARIS, April 10 (Xinhua) -- France, along with four other European countries, have envisaged¹ creating a multinational² system of information to fight tax evasion³, the French Economy and Finance Ministry⁴ said on Wednesday.

　　"Pierre Moscovici, Minister of Economy and Finance, has addressed on Tuesday (April 9) with its counterparts from Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy, a letter to European Commissioner⁵ for Taxation⁶, Algirdas Semeta, expressing their joint⁷ request to establish a multilateral system of exchange of information" in the banking⁸ sector⁹, the ministry said in a statement.

　　The five European countries decided¹⁰ to build the system on the U.S. model of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance¹¹ Act (FATCA), which is designed to improve tax compliance involving foreign financial assets and offshore¹² accounts through exchanges of information between foreign financial institutions and U.S. Treasury¹³ Department.

　　Economy Minister Moscovici and Budget Minister Bernard Cazeneuve pushed for an automatic exchange of information in the hope of ending banking secrecy¹⁴ and concealment¹⁵ of assets, the statement added.

　　The initiative came as the French government was shaken last week by a tax evasion scandal of former French budget minister Jerome Cahuzac, who admitted having held bank accounts in Switzerland and had it transferred later to Singapore.

　　Earlier, a collaborative inquiry¹⁶ revealed offshore companies and their wealthy clients, including Jean-Jacques Augier, former campaign treasurer¹⁷ of President Francois Hollande in 2012, as a shareholder¹⁸ of two companies in the Cayman Islands, a tax haven¹⁹.

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