In understanding of the business impacts, the Federal Supreme Court clarified the uncertainty on determination of the import VAT value for foreign companies involved in supplies of goods to Switzerland resulting from the recent decision of the Federal Administrative Court. Read More »
Tag: Switzerland
Switzerland – E-Invoicing: requirement for advanced electronic signatures abolished
In order to claim the input VAT deduction on purchases, a tax payer has to prove authenticity and integrity of the document in question, irrespective of whether it was received on paper or electronically. In the past, for electronic invoices, this required the use of an advanced electronic signature. This applied despite the free consideration of evidence, which was introduced into the VAT legislation in 2010 and states that input VAT can be deducted if the taxable person can prove that he paid the VAT. Read More »
Senior Manager International VAT (100%)
Axpo. Full of energy in Switzerland and in Europe.
The Axpo Group produces, trades and distributes energy reliably for more than 3 million people and several thousand companies in Switzerland and in over 30 countries throughout Europe. More than 4500 employees combine the expertise from 100 years of climate-friendly power production with innovative strength for a sustainable energy future. Read More »
Music, History and International Collaboration
It is common knowledge that the media persistently report on the strife, disharmony and suffering in our world caused by parties unable to find agreement or ways to compromise. Consequently, too seldom do the media give enough time or space to those successful and fruitful collaborations among people, which result in positive outcomes. It just shows that the adage “Good news doesn’t sell” still applies.Read More »
Top Women in Tax – please nominate your candidate until 15 December 2015
20 years ago, at the time when VAT was introduced in Switzerland, men were not really interested in this field. There was too little prestige, too little to shine. The opinion of the tax community at that time was that VAT is hardly relevant for businesses as it is a transit tax and only causes pain to end consumers who have to pay the VAT. Its true for the majority of the companies that VAT is a transit tax IF EVERYTHING IS IMPLEMENTED CORRECTLY. Read More »
New job opportunity at Wärtsilä Services Switzerland Ltd
Are you looking for a new challenging job opportunity?
Please see open position of Wärtsilä Services Switzerland Ltd – VAT/Finance Manager.Read More »
Invitation PwC Event: Driving Switzerland’s growth in the digital economy
PwC is hosting an asut (Association Suisse des Télécommunications) event in the PwC Zurich offices on 22 October on the topic of “Driving Switzerland’s growth in the digital economy“.
About asut (http://www.asut.ch/):
Asut is the association of telecommunication in Switzerland represented across all industries.Read More »
New job opportunity at Jet Aviation
Are you looking for a new challenging job opportunity?
Please see open position of Jet Aviation – VAT Manager EMEA
Jet Aviation is looking for a flexible person who is willing to work in different locations (Basel, Kreuzlingen, Zürich and further travel within Europe).
Partial revision of the VAT Law in Switzerland – Lower VAT registration threshold for e-service providers is proposed
The Swiss Federal Council has published its commentary to the partial revision of the VAT Law. If the draft legislation is approved by the Swiss parliament, the changes will come into effect on 1.1.2016.
For further information please visit our PwC e-biz and ecommerce blog
Switzerland underlines efforts to cooperate in exchange of financial account information in tax matters
On 19 November, Switzerland signed the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement in Tax Matters as 52nd jurisdiction. This is a further step in the country’s plan to activate automatic exchange of financial account information in tax matters with other countries.Read More »
Michaela Merz 