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…
Leases and rentals in Switzerland: light decrease in litigation
In the second half of 2020, there were more than 300 fewer conciliation proceedings in the federal government than in the first six months,…
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…
Online trade: more customs security between Switzerland and the EU
Bern will participate in the "Import Control System 2", whereby data will already be transmitted during shipment from the country of…
Anti-COVID measures gone, Switzerland will start racing
Swiss GDP is expected to rise by 3% and unemployment to fall gradually to an annual average of around 3.3% by the end of 2021.
900 commodity traders in Switzerland
Swiss companies that import and export materials used in the manufacture of other goods employ 9,800 people, primarily in the cantons of…
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…
Up the income of Swiss households, but…
Bank Cler's "Swiss Income Monitor" analysis found increases of CHF 3,500 and CHF 5,400 on median and average earnings, alongside greater…
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…
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…
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…
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…