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Swiss fiduciary & tax advisory

You focus on what matters.
We take care of Switzerland.

Swiss expertise. Global perspective. Personal commitment.

IBEX SERVICES SA is a fiduciary and tax advisory firm in Chiasso, Ticino. Since 2009 we have carried the Swiss accounting, tax, corporate and payroll obligations of international entrepreneurs, companies and executives — so that the people running them do not have to.

Swiss expertise. Global perspective. Personal commitment.

Our approach

We advise. We challenge. We protect.

We advise

We look at the whole picture before we recommend anything: the company, the family, the jurisdictions involved and the horizon you are planning against.

We challenge

We don't tell you what you want to hear. We tell you what you need to know, early enough for it to still be a choice.

We protect

Deadlines met, filings correct, exposure understood. Discretion is not a service line here; it is the condition of the work.

We don't guess.

Where certainty requires verification, we verify. We check the facts, consult the relevant authority or a qualified specialist, and come back with an answer we can stand behind. That takes a day longer and saves years.

Our services

Complexity handled. One accountable contact.

Six disciplines under one roof. In practice most clients use several at once, coordinated by one person who knows the whole file.

Accounting

Bookkeeping, annual accounts and reporting to Swiss standards, kept current rather than reconstructed at year end.

Bookkeeping · Annual accounts · Management reporting · Crypto accounting

Tax

Corporate and personal tax, VAT and cross-border matters, handled with the cantonal and federal practice that applies to your case.

Corporate tax · Personal tax · VAT · VAT and fiscal representation · International tax

Corporate

Company administration from incorporation onwards: statutory obligations, board and shareholder formalities, registry filings.

Incorporation · Corporate administration · Statutory compliance · Domiciliation

HR & Payroll

Swiss payroll and the administration around it — social security, insurance, permits — for teams of one to several hundred.

Payroll · Social security · HR administration · Insurance coordination · Permits

Private Affairs

The personal side of arriving in or living in Switzerland, coordinated so that nothing falls between advisers.

Personal tax · Relocation coordination · Authorities · Succession assistance

Special Tax Situations

Cases that do not fit a template: lump-sum taxation, rulings, voluntary disclosures, equity plans and crypto.

Lump-sum taxation · Tax rulings · Voluntary disclosures · Stock options · Crypto taxation

Three ways clients come to us.

Business

A company with Swiss obligations — its own, or those it inherited by entering the market. We run accounting, tax, payroll and corporate administration as one file, with one point of contact.

International groups · Listed companies · Technology, MedTech and FinTech · Swiss subsidiaries and branches

Private Affairs

An individual or family whose life crosses borders. Personal tax, residence, social security, relocation and succession, coordinated with your existing advisers rather than in competition with them.

Entrepreneurs · Internationally mobile executives · Families relocating to Switzerland

Special Situations

A position that needs to be assessed, negotiated or regularised. We establish the facts, engage directly with the relevant authorities where appropriate, and set out the options with their consequences.

Lump-sum taxation · Tax rulings · Voluntary disclosures · Employee participation · Crypto

Entering Switzerland

From first question to a Swiss operation that runs.

01

Assess

What Switzerland will actually require of you — substance, tax, employment, VAT — before commitments are made.

02

Establish

Incorporation or registration, VAT and fiscal representation, banking introductions, first employment contracts.

03

Operate

Monthly accounting, payroll and social security, VAT returns, statutory deadlines tracked on your behalf.

04

Sustain

Annual accounts and tax returns, audit coordination, and a standing review of what has changed in your position.

Proven in complexity · Chiasso since 2009

Experience you can count, not adjectives.

300+

active corporate mandates, in 15 cantons

500+

payslips issued every month

40+

Swiss fiscal representations

200+private affairs mandates

20+lump-sum taxation cases, in 6 cantons

These are working figures, not marketing rounding: mandates actually carried, cantons actually dealt with. Behind them sits the part that does not reduce to a number — international groups, listed companies, and technology businesses in MedTech and FinTech.

Selected client situations

Anonymised, because that is the point.

No client is named here, and no names, no amounts and no dates appear. What follows is the shape of the work: the situation, our involvement, and where it ended.

Outcomes depend on the facts of each case and on the practice of the authority concerned. Nothing here is a prediction of a result in another matter.

Precision manufacturing · from incorporation to today

Continuous since incorporation · 1 Swiss entity · group finance and auditors coordinated

An international precision engineering group establishing itself in Switzerland, and then staying. The mandate has run continuously from the incorporation of the Swiss company to the present day.

Swiss accounting, tax and corporate administration carried without interruption since set-up.

The same firm has held the Swiss file for the entire life of the company — the continuity a group needs when its own finance staff change.

MedTech company · Swiss market entry

Entry under time pressure · 3 authorities · group auditor coordinated

A medical technology business opening a Swiss entity, with employees already hired before the structure existed.

Incorporation, VAT registration, payroll and social security set-up, and coordination with the auditors and the head-office finance team.

The entity was operating and compliant from its first payroll run, and we have run the Swiss file since.

Fashion retail · Swiss operations

Ongoing · retail across multiple locations · payroll, VAT, stamp duty and insurance in one mandate

A fashion group running retail in Switzerland — a people-heavy operation where payroll, insurance and tax obligations all move together.

Accounting and support to the auditor, monthly payslips, VAT, cantonal and communal tax, stamp duty, and support to HR on insurance including social insurance.

One Swiss point of reference covering the finance and employment obligations of a retail operation, rather than four suppliers coordinating with each other.

Private client · relocation under lump-sum taxation

Decided before arrival · 1 cantonal authority · residence and insurance coordinated

A family moving to Switzerland, choosing between cantons with different practice and different appetites.

Assessment of eligibility, preparation of the application, direct engagement with the cantonal authority, and coordination of residence and insurance matters.

An agreed basis of taxation confirmed by the canton before the family arrived, and ongoing annual filings since.

Private client · historic position regularised

Multi-year reconstruction · 1 cantonal procedure · counsel instructed

An individual with undeclared foreign assets, uncertain what disclosure would mean.

Reconstruction of the position, a voluntary disclosure prepared to the cantonal requirements, and representation through the procedure with counsel where required.

The position was regularised and the client's affairs returned to ordinary annual compliance.

Digital assets · accounting for a new asset class

15+ projects · treatment established before practice settled

International blockchain projects raising and holding digital assets at a time when Swiss accounting practice for them was still being formed.

Accounting and fiduciary support for token-based business models, and the valuation and reporting questions that came with them.

More than fifteen such projects carried through Swiss accounting and reporting; the same treatment questions are now routine work for corporate holders of digital assets.

Technology with purpose

Digital where it helps. Human where it counts.

Documents move through secure digital channels, accounting is maintained continuously rather than in year-end batches, and clients see their position when they ask for it — not six weeks later.

Judgement is not automated. Every filing that carries a consequence is reviewed by the person answerable for it.

Swiss expertise. Global connections.

Chiasso sits on the Italian border, twenty minutes from Milan and inside the Swiss system. That position has shaped the practice: most of our work has more than one country in it.

Where a matter needs a lawyer, an auditor, a notary or a specialist in another jurisdiction, we bring in someone we have worked with and stay accountable for the coordination. You keep one counterpart.

People

You will know who is responsible for your file.

Behind the three of them is a team of accountants, payroll and tax specialists in Chiasso, working in Italian, English, German and French.

Oliver Camponovo

Oliver Camponovo

Founder & President of the Board

Founded IBEX SERVICES SA in 2009 and chairs the board. Works principally on international structures and special tax situations.

Cristina Benedetti

Cristina Benedetti

Member of the Board

Member of the board of IBEX SERVICES SA, with a focus on the firm's fiduciary and corporate administration mandates.

Cristina Cardoni

Cristina Cardoni

CEO & Executive Managing Director

Leads the firm's operations and client delivery, and is accountable for the day-to-day running of client mandates.

Insights

Written when there is something to say.

Three streams, published in four languages, each piece written and reviewed by the people who do the work.

If you would like new pieces when they appear, tell us in your enquiry.

News

Changes in Swiss tax and social security law, and what they mean in practice.

Insights

Longer pieces on recurring questions: entering Switzerland, cross-border employment, equity plans, crypto.

IBEX

The firm: appointments, mandates we can speak about, and where we will be.

Tell us about your situation.

You don't need to know exactly what you need. Describe the situation and we will tell you whether it is something we should handle, and what it would involve.
IBEX SERVICES SA · Via Serafino Balestra 6 · CH-6830 Chiasso
info@ibex.services

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