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Wednesday August 19, 09:50 PM Reuters

FACTBOX - Facts about U.S., Swiss tax deal on UBS

REUTERS - Switzerland will hand over details of about 4,450 bank accounts to U.S. authorities as part of a deal struck with Washington over UBS, it said on Wednesday.

Here are some basic details on the deal struck:

* The United States will withdraw demand for disclosure of the identity of 52,000 UBS accounts holders

* Swiss will direct UBS to turn over information on 4,450 accounts to IRS

* Swiss agree to review requests involving other banks for account holders similar to UBS case

* U.S. says it can still seek judicial remedies if results are significantly less or other measures fail.

* U.S. says will receive substantially all of the accounts of interest in settlement with UBS

* U.S. says UBS accounts being turned over held over $18 billion at one point in time

* UBS says it does not have to pay any fine

* The deal ends a row which has strained relations between the United States and Switzerland and challenged the latter's jealously guarded bank secrecy laws

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