German prosecutors confirmed Thursday they
raided 19 separate locations across the country as part of a massive investigation into so-called "cum-ex" tax fraud.
Germany's former top spy, Werner Mauss, was Thursday given a two-year suspended sentence and ordered to donate €200,000 to charity as he was convicted for tax evasion.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble on Sunday pleaded for countries to work together in the fight against tax cheats and money launderers by sharing national lists naming the beneficiaries of shell companies.
The German government on Monday said it hoped the revelations from the so-called "Panama Papers" will spur global efforts to combat tax evasion and money laundering.
Dozens of world leaders, politicians, celebrities and sports stars are fidgeting uncomfortably on their chairs after a German newspaper unveiled details of their offshore activities.
Greek and German authorities agreed Saturday to step up their cooperation on tax evasion, with information supplied by Germany already being used to probe thousands of Greeks suspected of stashing money in Swiss accounts.
Tax authorities in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia may be able to take in at least €600 million after buying digital files relating to tax avoidance between 2006 and 2011, media reported on Monday.
A newly-created police unit in Düsseldorf has spent months investigating Luxembourg banks and their German subsidiaries on suspicion of helping clients evade tax and launder money, triggering a wave of raids on Tuesday.
Dozens of German firms are among the 340 international companies revealed to have struck secret tax deals in Luxembourg, allowing them to reduce tax bills despite having minimal activity in the tiny duchy.
Top Swiss bank UBS settled a long-running legal dispute with Germany on Tuesday by agreeing to pay a fine of €300 million. Germany suspects UBS of having helped account holders hide millions from the taxman.
German customs officials have seized two containers filled with account details from a Swiss private bank's subsidiary in the Cayman Islands, a news report said on Sunday.
Police have arrested a man who tried to blackmail former Bayern Munich supremo Uli Hoeneß, threatening him with violence when he starts his prison term for tax evasion.
The number of Germans smuggling large amounts of cash across the Swiss border into Germany rose dramatically last year. Customs officers said on Thursday they made a find in almost every third car they checked.
Ex-Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß made his first public appearance since being convicted of tax fraud when he watched the European champions host Hoffenheim in the German league on Saturday.
UPDATE: Bayern Munich’s boss Uli Hoeneß resigned from all his posts at the club on Friday morning and decided against appealing his sentence for tax evasion. It means he will now start a three-and-a-half-year jail sentence.
UPDATE: A German court Thursday sentenced football legend Uli Hoeneß, president of powerhouse club Bayern Munich, to three-and-a-half years in jail for major tax fraud.
UPDATE: Bayern Munich boss Uli Hoeneß faced a damaging testimony in a tax trial on Tuesday when an official charged the German football legend had withheld incriminating evidence for over a year and avoided €23.7 million in tax.
It is starting to look like to be someone in Germany you have to pay back taxes on money that has been stashed away in a tax haven. The spate of apologies is being prompted by a race-against-time clause, a law professor told The Local.
The number of people coming forward to declare unpaid tax to German authorities has tripled in the wake of the high profile case of Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeneß, who faces trial this year for alleged tax evasion.
Although Germans express outrage when wealthy or famous people evade taxes, many of them do the same themselves, albeit on a smaller scale, a new survey shows.
German President Joachim Gauck had harsh words for tax evaders on Thursday, whom he called “irresponsible” and “anti-social”. The rare political intervention for Germany's head of state came in the wake of a high profile tax-dodging scandal.
Uli Hoeneß is thought to have hidden millions of euros in Switzerland, safely out of sight of the German tax man. If he is proven guilty, the football legend will no longer be able to lead FC Bayern Munich as he has, comments <b>ZEIT ONLINE's Oliver Fritsch</b>.
An leak of millions of documents about rampant tax evasion by the rich includes hundreds of Germans, including late playboy and art collector Gunter Sachs. Deutsche Bank is also implicated as an "aggressive" enabler.
