Value Added Tax (VAT) Rates Worldwide: Overview of Consumption Taxes
The Value Added Tax (VAT) is one of the primary revenue collection tools in many countries around the world and can vary significantly from…
Liechtenstein and Italy sign against double taxation
As part of a virtual signing ceremony, Head of Government and Minister of Finance Daniel Risch, together with his Italian counterpart…
Switzerland will be removed from the Italian black list
Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter and Italian Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti signed a political declaration concerning the…
Swiss cantons improve their fiscal attractiveness
The "BAK Taxation Index" unveiled a drop from 16.9 percent to 13.9 percent in ordinary burden, using 2017 as the "pre-RFFA" baseline year
Differentiated regionalism? A compelling dissertation
On sale on "Swiss Federalism" the book that, in a clear and precise way, illustrates fiscal federalism and the opportunity of regional…
Corporate taxation: Switzerland requests more certainty from the OECD
Berne would like to see safeguards for the interests of smaller, economically strong countries and greater regulatory clarity for the…
Meeting in Bern between the heads of the Confederation and the OECD
Guy Parmelin and Ueli Maurer on taxation with Mathias Cormann, new Secretary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
And Switzerland will chair the European tax body…
Marc Bugnon, Director of the Federal Tax Administration, at the head of the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administrations
Towards measures for a competitive Swiss economy
In the context of the fiscal policy of the OSCE and G20, Bern will focus on innovation, sustainable growth, a high level of prosperity and…
For Standard & Poor’s Liechtenstein is a triple A country
In its report of May 31, 2021, the agency S&P Global confirmed the Principality's rating with the highest expected grade on account of the…
When the real problem is not the “how much” but the “why”
The issue of tax pressure in Italy is never addressed from the point of view of the people, but always and only from the technical point of…
364.3 million requested for federal buildings
The government has adopted the 2021 dispatch on constructions that are useful to Switzerland, from the Swimming Centre in Tenero to the…
New inheritance law effective January 1, 2023
In future, Swiss heirs will be able to freely dispose of a larger portion of the estate, with a reduction for their children from three…
BAK Economics: “No strong inflation in Switzerland…”
Rising prices are creating unease and concern, but the institute with offices in Basel, Zurich and Lugano believes the fears are unfounded,…
Still very little interest in the carry-over procedure
Direct VAT payments for imports to the Federal Tax Administration instead of the Federal Customs Administration do not take off
Swiss market more attractive for foundations in the future?
Yes of the Federal Council to a parliamentary initiative that aims to simplify the ancillary changes to the certificate of incorporation…