Here’s why people don’t like insurance against pandemics
Companies have conveyed to the Federal Council their opposition to annual premiums that are parafiscal in nature and useful only if they…
Two numismatic world records are from Switzerland
The Guiness Book of World Records has validated the gold coin "Albert Einstein" from a quarter franc issued in 2020 and the minting of 10…
Canton of Ticino says yes to payments to the state in Bitcoin
With the support of UDC, Lega dei Ticinesi, FDP and some PPD members, the Grand Council approved the motion on cryptocurrencies of 2017 by…
Nicola Zanni: “In Zug, if you want and work hard, you get a lot”
The Ferrara entrepreneur, who has headed an established financial firm since 2015, enjoys in Switzerland the paradise on earth denied him…
Zurich is increasingly a ‘foreign’ start-up hotbed
With 76 per cent of start-up and innovative companies from outside Switzerland, the city on the banks of the Limmat shines in the Heatmap…
Military Research: Switzerland on the Board of RUAG International
The federal government will sit on the governing body with Toni Eder and Sabine D'Amelio-Favez to comply with the Armanent Enterprises Act…
IMF: “Very effective pandemic management in Switzerland”
Bern lagged economically by 2.9 percent in 2020, but will grow by 3.5 and is ready for the challenges of retirement and climate change
Bankruptcies and debt enforcement in decline throughout Switzerland
In 2020, corporate dissolutions and precepts fell 6.6 percent (-18.2 in Ticino...) and 13.3 percent, respectively, compared to 2019
Download the Swiss Confederation’s Annual Report 2020 here
A general overview of Swiss finances is available in three languages in electronic form on the website of the Federal Finance…
Switzerland will issue gross loans of 12 billion in 2021
The Federal Finance Administration carries out a revision of the planned acquisition of resources in the money and capital markets: 3,500…
Private use of company cars: higher deduction
In Switzerland, taxation of the use of the employer's vehicles must be on a flat-rate basis and must also include transport costs for…
The canton of Zug is not satisfied: taxation even lower…
An initiative accepted by 67 percent of voters will create new deductions and "mini" rates for three years, in a square already free of…
Spannaus: “Biden and his people have learned the lessons of Trump”
For the political analyst, the new president will have to balance the cravings of an America steeped in ostentatious federalism with…
Switzerland-Indonesia: Cooperation in the four-year period 2021-2024
SECO will provide $65 million in grants to support Jakarta in becoming a more competitive, resilient, and equitable economy
From Switzerland the suggestive proposal for a “digital euro”
A non-physical currency devised for the ECB by Christian Grothoff, a Bern-based computer scientist, David Chaum, an American cryptographer,…
Yes of the Federal Council to the Oberburg bypass
The government is asking the Swiss parliament for 77 million Swiss francs to improve the road network in the Burgdorf conurbation as part…