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Who Knew Deposits Would be Taken? Lots of Folks, Apparently
Zero Hedge ^ | 04/01/2013 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 04/01/2013 10:12:33 AM PDT by NOVACPA

With every passing day, it becomes clearer and clearer the Cyprus deposit confiscation "news" was the most unsurprising outcome for the nation's financial system and was known by virtually everyone on the ground days and weeks in advance: first it was disclosed that Russians had been pulling their money, then it was suggested the president himself had made sure some €21 million of his family's money was parked safely in London, then we showed a massive surge in Cyprus deposit outflows in February, and now the latest news is that a list of 132 companies and individuals has emerged who withdrew their €-denominated deposits in the two weeks from March 1 to March 15, among which the previously noted company Loutsios & Sons which is alleged to have ties with the current Cypriot president Anastasiadis.

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1 posted on 04/01/2013 10:12:33 AM PDT by NOVACPA
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To: NOVACPA

Only a fool would have left their money in the banks. I guess now they will attack people for protecting their assets.


2 posted on 04/01/2013 10:15:02 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Democrats: Robbing Peter to buy Paul's vote.)
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To: NOVACPA

I’m thrilled they got their money out. But since it’s easy to figure out who ducked the tax, why not go after the assets in their new location? I assume it would be like this. I have my money in a California bank. California decides to balance their budget with a “one time” tax on deposits. I move my money to Nevada. I’m certain that California would come after it. Probably they’d threaten to close all the California branches of the Nevada bank if it wasn’t turned over. Then, I’d have to go to a California court to get it back. (Comments?)


3 posted on 04/01/2013 10:30:05 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: NOVACPA

I figured it would come out that the well-connected got advance warning and were not set up for haircuts.


4 posted on 04/01/2013 10:30:41 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: NOVACPA

All the “cronies” and insiders were covered leaving the usual small business and middle class holding the dirty end of the stick as usual...


5 posted on 04/01/2013 10:31:59 AM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: Gen.Blather

Not a bug it’s a feature. All the RIGHT people got the nod to get their money out in time.


6 posted on 04/01/2013 10:33:44 AM PDT by Kozak (The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)
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To: dirtboy
Not me. I'm shocked SHOCKED that they took care of their own.
7 posted on 04/01/2013 10:33:56 AM PDT by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Republicans create the tools of oppression and Democrats use them.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

just the ordinary folks. Grandma and Grandpa were screwed.


8 posted on 04/01/2013 10:36:50 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Gen.Blather

CA is worst. Their regulators would audit a bank. If they find a bank have accounts that were inactive, they would use CA laws to seize the account and force the saver to reclaim it thru a state process. It takes time, but the seized inactive accounts provide cushion for state debts. Worst if a safety deposit box is inactive, the contents are seized and auctioned off to raise cash for CA gov. If one is smart, make sure you visit your safety deposit boxes twice a year and make deposits in person to any savings accounts you have at least twice a year so a cash hungry state does not force the bank to declare it inactive and seize it. Otherwise pull the money out.


9 posted on 04/01/2013 10:38:00 AM PDT by Fee
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I was surprised at how most of the people just took it lying down. I'm sure that will provide encouragement for other countries to do the same, including here in the U.S.
10 posted on 04/01/2013 10:59:13 AM PDT by aegiscg47
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To: Gen.Blather

Except once it got to Nevada, it was split ten times and sent to ten different states. Where it was all sent to another country. It all came back together in the final country and deposited in a numbered account in some haven we haven’t heard of yet.

Practically untraceable.


11 posted on 04/01/2013 10:59:18 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: Kozak

Just curiously, what about a credit union?


12 posted on 04/01/2013 11:00:11 AM PDT by SMARTY ("The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings. "Henri Frederic Amiel)
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To: Vermont Lt

Apparently, not to be a citizen for California for the purposes of taxation requires that you have been physically out of the state for 18 month. That you have not maintained a piece of property, a bank account or a social membership, such as in a church, also for 18 months.

A really wealthy guy could do as you suggest. But the average citizen simply can’t open multiple bank accounts easily. I had to show up in person with a birth certificate to open an account where I live. If I split my meager savings into 10 accounts, they’d all be local and all reachable by California if they so choose. As somebody once said, “Taxes are only for the little people.”


13 posted on 04/01/2013 11:16:00 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: Kozak

That’s going to happen here as well.

The PTB will keep the balls in the air as long as they possibly can, allowing the “right” people to get more and more of the “wrong” people’s money in play,

then, they’ll get the nod that the balls are about to drop, and they’ll turn the lights out on everyone.


14 posted on 04/01/2013 11:18:55 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Gen.Blather

Oh, yes...what I describe is a rich man’s game. The fees on all of those transfers would be significant. And managing it would not be difficult—planning it and executing it would take weeks to set up. And likely you would be violating all sorts of laws.

But the folks that do this stuff are not really concerned with their accountants getting pinched.


15 posted on 04/01/2013 11:36:54 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: Gen.Blather

Agree completely. In fact the word for this is basically an ‘exit tax’, which is what we impose on rich folk who decide that citizenship in the US is to expensive.


16 posted on 04/01/2013 12:30:04 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

I was listening to a utube about Cyprus. They were interviewing a businessman who was saying that everything has to be done in cash and he will lose his business as will most of the other businesses. No credit cards are being excepted and any ordering they do has to be in cash.
We all need to have cash on hand to a certain extent just to make sure you can buy gas, etc., if it happens here.


17 posted on 04/01/2013 1:26:15 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: Cowgirl

It’ll be a massive banking collaps that we lead the world to use script to buy stuff.

Script may be the thing that ushers in a single world currency.

There will be barter, and there will be script.


18 posted on 04/01/2013 1:57:30 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: RinaseaofDs

What is script?


19 posted on 04/01/2013 4:31:23 PM PDT by Cowgirl
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To: Cowgirl

hehe

Think “scrip”.


20 posted on 04/01/2013 4:36:34 PM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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