Business
Most companies do not arrive with a tidy brief. They arrive with a Swiss entity that needs accounts, employees who have already started, a VAT question nobody has answered and a head office that wants a single number to call. We take the whole of it.
Bookkeeping maintained through the year, not reconstructed in March. Annual accounts to Swiss standards, and the monthly or quarterly reporting your head office consolidates — in the format it already uses, on the date it already expects.
Bookkeeping · Annual accounts under Swiss CO · Management and group reporting · Audit preparation and liaison · Crypto accounting
Federal, cantonal and communal tax returns, VAT registration and periodic returns, and the cross-border questions that come with them. Where a position is uncertain we say so, and where it can be settled in advance with the authority we tell you what that would involve.
Corporate income and capital tax · VAT registration and returns · VAT and fiscal representation for foreign companies · Withholding tax · Cross-border and international tax questions
Swiss payroll is not only a calculation. It is the AHV registration, the pension arrangement, the accident cover, the permit, the cross-border commuter, the bonus that is taxed differently than the group assumed. We run the calculation and everything standing behind it.
Monthly payroll · Social security registration and declarations · Occupational pension and insurance coordination · Work and residence permits · Employee participation and stock option reporting
Incorporation or branch registration, and then the statutory rhythm that follows: board and shareholder resolutions, register filings, capital changes, domiciliation where required. Small obligations, expensive to miss.
Incorporation and branch registration · Board and shareholder formalities · Commercial register filings · Statutory compliance calendar · Domiciliation
Companies rarely fail their Swiss obligations through bad advice. They fail them in the gaps — between the accountant and the payroll bureau, between the local adviser and the group's auditor. We hold those gaps ourselves, so the coordination is not your problem.
How the engagement runs
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Thirty to sixty minutes, no charge. What the entity does, who it employs, what has been filed and what has not.
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What we will do, what stays with you, who is responsible, and the fee. Fixed where the work is predictable.
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Records, access, authorities and any outgoing adviser. We tell you what we find, including anything that needs correcting.
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A named contact, a deadline calendar we own, and a standing review of what has changed in your position.
We work best with companies whose Swiss position has more than one moving part. If you need only a bookkeeper, there are cheaper places to find one, and we will say so.
If the entity does not exist yet — assessment, incorporation, first employment contracts.
Rulings, employee participation, crypto and positions that need to be regularised.
For the founders and executives behind the company, and their own Swiss position.
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.
