As soon as I read the words "
our lawyer" in your post, I knew some big numbers would follow.
I'm not sure what you mean by hassle with Einzelfirma. It the equivelant of sole-trader, individual operating as a business, and offers minimal hassle. There will always be the liability issue which is
the major reason for Gmbh, and the credibility issue, but notwithstanding: the hassle is far less, not to mention the ongoing expenses...
www.gruenden.ch can provide most of the information you need.
If you have no special needs, you can get a fill-in-the-blanks set of Statuten by copying other company's that publish them on the internet. I used the UBS Articles for inspiration
I don't know what the notary did for his 2400chf, but that sounds expensive. The fact that your company was boilerplate should have brought in the notary+Handelregister together at about 1700chf. All the notary really has to do is witness the Urkunde on formation, and check your IDs and powers of attorney, if applicable.
But then in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king...
dave
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| Hi Richard,
Thanls for the comments.
We just went along with the advice given by our lawyer; and as I would be working initially at the one client, we felt the hassle attached to using an Einzelfirma would be too great - hence we went with a GmbH.
The cost mentioned (got from the govt website) for a GmbH is perhaps a little exaggerated - ISTR we paid about 1200 legal fees to our lawyer for drawing up the statutes and 2400 to the notary for the privilege of sitting in his plush office and using his fountain pen to sign the papers. But then our company setup was pretty "boilerplate" in nature.
I'd appreciate any other comments you may have BTW - just mail me privately if you don't want to take the thread too off-topic.
Cheers,
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