UBS to Name 4,450 Clients in IRS Deal

UBS AG is to give U.S. tax authorities the identities of about 4,450 U.S. clients who are suspected of evading taxes through secret Swiss accounts, according to a settlement.

The Swiss banking company is to turn over the client data as part of a deal to resolve an Internal Revenue Service probe that sought the names of tens of thousands of American UBS clients. UBS and the U.S. and Swiss governments agreed on a deal last week, but the details were not made public until Wednesday.

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