France and Germany are determined to get tough with countries that are offering a haven for tax evaders and refusing to exchange tax records. Switzerland is one of the countries that the German government has claimed should be internationally blacklisted at a conference in Paris for countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. According to press reports, German finance minister Peer Steinbrueck told a news conference: 'Switzerland offers conditions that invite the German taxpayer to evade taxes. Therefore, in my view Switzerland belongs on such a list.' Germany is one of many countries clamping down on tax evasion in the current economic turmoil, and is said to be investigating whether hundreds of German taxpayers escaped paying the government by keeping their money in the tiny Alpine principality of Liechtenstein. Earlier this week, British MPs urged Revenue & Customs to get tough on businesses evading taxes.