A stop to the violence and hatred? A stable coalition government? A resolution to the crisis in Crimea? Nah, none of that stuff really matters compared to the business of privatising the profits and socialising the costs. And with Ukraine’s U.S. “allies” pushing FATCA down their throats, the banks have some big costs they need to foist on the Ukrainian taxpayer, to make sure the banks don’t have to pay all of it themselves.
So Ukraine’s banks have taken a cue from Carl Levin’s strategy of sneaking FATCA itself through as a midnight amendment to a bill that was too long for anyone to read — they only conduct their anti-democratic IGA advocacy when no one is looking. And what better time than when the rest of the public is busy paying attention to some minor political kerfluffle like the fate of their country?
НАБУ обеспокоена отсутствием реальной имплементации Закона FATCA в Украине |
NABU concerned about lack of real implementation of FATCA law in Ukraine |
| http://news.kompass.ua/news/2014-03-07-34186 | |
| Независимая ассоциация банков Украины (НАБУ) обеспокоена отсутствием официальной информации о подготовке проекта Соглашения между правительством Украины и правительством Соединенных Штатов Америки относительно имплементации Закона «О налоговых требованиях к иностранным счетам» (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, FATCA). Об этом Ассоциация сообщила в своем письме в адрес премьер-министра Украины Арсения Яценюка. | The Independent Association of Ukrainian Banks (NABU) is concerned by the lack of official information on the preparation of the draft Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Government of the United States of America concerning the implementation of the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, the association stated in its letter to Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk. |
“We must save our country immediately so we can surrender it to the IRS in one piece!”
Google Translate handles the article surprisingly well, so I’ll let you read the rest there. Apparently the greed and chutzpah of bankers is a universal language.
