Ну если отвлечься от ВМВ и вернуться в сегодняшний день, поведение нынешней Штатовской администрации не может не вызвать сомнений в перспективах доллара в частности
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Следующий текст [показать]the U.S. has another new law that, effective in 2013, will require financial institutions around the world to disclose the citizenship of any American customers if they do business in the U.S.
In Canada's case, banks generally don't have that information. And if they can get it - no simple trick, especially if they must include past accounts as well as current ones - Canadian privacy laws sorely limit what they can do with it.
And if they can't get it or won't disclose it, the U.S. law calls for American authorities to withhold 30 per cent of any payments going back across the border and 30 per cent of the proceeds of the sale of any American assets.
Вкратце принят закон, по которому ИНОСТРАННЫЕ банки обязаны докладывать в США о том, какие счета открывают в них американские граждане. При том, что это требование нарушает законы и Канады, и, в бОльшей степени, многих европейских стран. Что, если верить статейке, уже приводит к тому, что банки отказываются иметь дело с американцами...
Конец очень забавный [показать]No one doubts the U.S. laws were intended to crack down on fraud and tax evasion, and in that I - and everybody I've talked to - wish them well.
"But they didn't think it though," Leonard said. "They don't understand how many minnows they'll catch with their whale net."
Worse, they'll create an unmanageable amount of unproductive work at a time when the IRS already lacks the manpower to go after people it has reason to believe are cheating the system. "All of a sudden there'll be hundreds of thousands more returns flooding in from people who don't owe anything," she said. "Who'll go through all this?"
Кто, мол, придумал стрелять из пушки по воробьям, и кто будет обрабатывать сотни тысяч пустых деклараций от людей, которые не должны Штатам ни копья...