Swiss fiscal authorities remain reserved
Whether tax rate, tax type or tax bureaucracy - experienced consultants hear more frequently one motive from company chiefs for shifting the location from abroad: Planning security instead of chaos.
Professor Brun-Hagen Hennerkes, an expert for family enterprises, says Switzerland just offers everything that formerly made foreign countries strong as well. The fiscal situation is becoming more attractive. In the meantime, the government is even providing a tax guarantee over 10 years.
Therefore the guidance of a company in Switzerland contains many advantages. Swiss companies are entitled with very low rates of taxation, normally approximately 9 % of their profit.
In particular for Holding companies and Trading companies, those have their business activities outside of Switzerland and are established in certain Kantons. Compared to Germany where the highest taxation rate is approx. 50 %, in Switzerland it is a maximum of 16.3 %.
You can begin to understand why doing business in Switzerland makes sense financially.