Greece to ask Germany to share data on tax cheats-

Greece will ask German authorities to share any data on its residents dodging taxes through Liechtenstein bank accounts as part of its clamp down on tax cheats, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday.

Greece will ask German authorities to share any data on its residents dodging taxes through Liechtenstein bank accounts as part of its clamp down on tax cheats, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday.

“We will make use of all information to fight tax evasion, including information from other countries,” Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis told reporters during a news conference with the foreign press.

“I have asked the deputy finance minister to seek information (from the German authorities),” he said.

International pressure on Liechtenstein to lift the cloak of secrecy from its banks is growing as tax agencies across the globe widen probes into tax evasion involving accounts in the tiny European state.

After Britain and the Netherlands joined Germany in probing secret bank accounts in the landlocked tax haven, the United States said it was investigating more than 100 American taxpayers suspected of using the principality to hide their wealth.

The tiny country of 35,000 residents nestled between Austria and Switzerland has lured thousands of wealthy investors from across the world with a promise of confidentiality, placing it on an international blacklist of taxation havens.