chuckers wrote:
> On Aug 28, 9:43 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> chuckers wrote:
>>> On Aug 28, 10:50 am, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> chuckers wrote:
>>> [chop]
>>> Of course, how the taxman finds out about foreign income is probably
>>> up to the individual to report. The Swiss may bend over for the US
>>> government nowadays but I doubt they will for the Japanese.
>> Easy.  A Japanese bank tells them.  Japanese tell anyone in the world
>> anything they want to know unless it inconveniences them personally, in
>> which case it falls under the Privacy Act and cannot be divulged.  I
>> have noticed that what people think falls under the Privacy Act is
>> proportional to how much trouble they'd be in if they told you.
>>
> 
> I was refering to the Japanese taxman.  Japanese banks may have no 
> qualms about blabbing but I don't the Japanese taxman has the 
> wherewithal to ask foreign banks about the assets of persons under
> their perview.

They _do_ ask.  That's why so many of them know the German term for 
"Buggeroff, creep".

-- 
CL