A former Boeing Co. sales manager who admitted using a UBS AG account to hide $1.86 million from U.S. tax authorities was sentenced Friday to 180 days of house arrest. Roberto Cittadini, 68, admitted in October that he filed a ...

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U.S. residents with more than 1 million Swiss francs, or $985,000, in undeclared foreign bank accounts are being targeted by the Internal Revenue Service’s widening probe of tax evasion. That benchmark was one of those released Tuesday as the Swiss ...

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A New York toy salesman who admitted hiding $8 million in assets at UBS AG was sentenced to three months in prison by a judge who credited his cooperation in a widening U.S. investigation of offshore tax evasion. Jeffrey Chernick ...

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If he had kept his mouth shut and his head low, Bradley Birkenfeld would be a free man today. He didn’t, so now the former UBS banker wears an electronic bracelet on his ankle and, beginning in January, will spend ...

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An agreement by UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, to reveal data on 4,450 accounts may lead to a larger crackdown on tax evasion by banks and lawyers, said U.S. Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman. UBS agreed Wednesday to hand ...

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UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, will divulge information on 4,450 accounts to settle a U.S. lawsuit that sought names of American clients suspected of evading taxes. Switzerland and the U.S. announced the agreement Wednesday, resolving a six-month legal tussle that ...

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The U.S. and Switzerland settled a Justice Department lawsuit against UBS AG seeking the names of Americans suspected of evading taxes through 52,000 secret Swiss accounts. The governments have initialed agreements and will later sign a final accord, Justice Department ...

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The U.S. Justice Department denied a published report Tuesday that it may drop a civil lawsuit that seeks to force UBS AG, the largest Swiss bank by assets, to disclose the identities of 52,000 U.S. account holders. The New York ...

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