Switzerland: Price of ending special corporate schemes

Switzerland : Price of ending special corporate schemes

To be in compliance with the EU and OECD, Berne submits its reform of corporate taxation to parliament. Obstacles ahead

08 juin 2015 à 13h36

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The drive to eliminate canton-level special tax schemes for holding and administrative companies in Switzerland now has to clear domestic obstacles. After the deal concluded on 15 October 2014 by Brussels and Berne, putting an end to a decade of tension and misunderstandings, the Swiss Federal Council (government) launched a gigantic reform of corporate taxation, on 5 June. The scrapping of the controversial tax schemes in the EU and the OECD requires an overhaul of all corporate taxation, in particular…

Automatic exchange of information submitted to parliament

In the wake of the agreement signed on 27 May by Switzerland and the EU, the Federal Council transmitted to parliament, on 5 June, the proposal for the switchover to automatic exchange of information. The National Council (people's chamber) may examine it next autumn. In an interview published on 7 June in NZZ am Sonntag, Federal Council member Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf raised the idea of a tax amnesty in the confederation for Swiss nationals abroad and foreigners in Switzerland in order to clean up past non-compliance.

Switzerland : Price of ending special corporate schemes

Automatic exchange of information submitted to parliament

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