Swiss SMEs have saved more than 2 billion on duties
Thanks to Free Trade Agreements, 140,000 Swiss companies have made use of special reduced rates, 55,000 of them for all transactions.
At the Federal Office of the Environment there will be Petra Zimmermann
In the summer, the 50-year-old manager will take over from Christine Hofmann at the end of a long career in IT and sustainability, in the…
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…
Switzerland will have an ad hoc ambassador for the… science
For the first time, the Federal Council has chosen a special representative for scientific diplomacy in the person of High Representative…
More flexibility in promoting Swiss innovation
Innosuisse and the SNSF will have more room for manoeuvre and be more responsive in their support of renovation projects and start-ups.
Dairy products and agrotourism? Excellent in Switzerland
The Agroscope agency and an external partner examined in Ettenhausen data from 3,500 farms and three different strategies for dairy farms
Taxation, sixteen fields of action for the Switzerland of the future
Amidst lights and shadows, experts have developed new principles on which to guide tax policy debates through a dialogue based on trust
A group of experts will improve the Swiss fiscal centre
On behalf of Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer, experts from the Confederation, the cantons and the economic and scientific world are working…
Council of Europe: Who will represent the Swiss territories?
The names of the 12 members of the Swiss delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg for the period…
Professional titles more equivalent between Switzerland and Germany
A new Swiss-German bilateral agreement will reflect developments in work-based education in both countries and extend the scope of the…
Between what is given and what is received, there is the fiscal residue
In 1950, economist James Buchanan defined the yardstick against which to assess the adequacy of the overall redistributive activity of the…
In a coin 50 years of women’s suffrage in Switzerland
On April 29, 2021, the Federal Mint will issue a new gold coinage with a face value of 50 francs to celebrate half a century of women's…
The pillar insurance companies of the Zurich marketplace
In 2019, the security branch of the financial sector generated one in six francs of added value and provided one in ten jobs on the banks…
Bologna will give new life to electrical and electronic waste
A groundbreaking project of Emilia-Romagna, unique in Europe, to collect WEEE, prepare it for reuse and sell it at large commercial chains
Draghi in 2011: “Federalism helps public accounts”
The Governor of the Bank of Italy evoked local taxes associated with a reduction of taxes at the center and new decentralized tasks subject…
Up to CHF 6 billion for Switzerland and the cantons from the National Bank
New profit distribution agreement (and doubled amounts for fiscal years 2020-2025...) between the Federal Department of Finance and the SNB