This month's issue features articles about the agreement between the United States and Switzerland on an amnesty program for Swiss banks; the Sovereign Bancorp decision, in which a Massachusetts district court held that a STARS transaction had objective economic substance; and the Salem Financial decision, in which the Court of Federal Claims held that a STARS transaction failed the economic substance test.
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