France pays Switzerland overdue tax bill

Switzerland has confirmed it received CHF320 million ($332 million) of taxes overdue since June from France for cross-border workers employed in Switzerland. The payment was finally settled on Wednesday after Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf reminded her French counterpart Michel Sapin of the unpaid bill at the annual summit of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Lima. Mario Tuor, a spokesman for the State Secretariat for International Matters (SIF), told swissinfo.ch that his department, responsible for global taxation matters, “sent letters to different levels of the French administration asking ‘why have you not yet paid? The deadline was on the June 30’”. The response received at the time, he said, was that payments were being made and that “there had been administrative problems”. When the ministers met in Lima, Sapin told Widmer-Schlumpf he would take care of it, according to Tuor. Tuor added that SIF had offered the French a course on ...