Thread: Pension - Moving my UK pension to Switzerland
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Old 08.01.2008, 15:32
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Re: Pension - Moving my UK pension to Switzerland
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I'm afraid I do not agree with all the advice you have been given. The law is perfectly clear on this subject. It is not possible to transfer accumulated pension from the UK into a Swiss pension (2nd piller) plan. The Swiss federal law on vested benefits only allows transfers of vested benefits from one Swiss institution to another.

but you are allowed to use the UK pension money to buy a gap in the Swiss pension plan (ie. from a Swiss legal/tax perspective it would be treated no different than making a payment in cash from your UK bank account to cover the gap). No?


and most mid career movers have a pretty significant gap in a Swiss pension plan-
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