Hi,

I was wondering if anyone know the rules for having your company in the commercial register.

Can I be a sole trader and have my company registered there? If not, what are the minimum requirements?

What are the costs?

http://www.handelsregister.ch/

http://www.gruenden.ch/

Excellent!

The 2nd link had lots of nice info - except price.

Anyone know the price to register ( i guess it varies from canton to canton ) but an approx price would be nice for a sole prio company.

Try here:

http://www.hra.zh.ch/internet/justiz...verfahren.html

ZEFIX

about "Can I be a sole trader and have my company registered there" yes

about "What are the costs?" roughly 100 francs as I recall.
Can be many times that if you take the subsequent flood of official looking letters seriously & are foolish enough to pay their enclosed invoices.

Hi again bobo_97,
Costs of setting up an Einzelfirma (sole tradership and not a company)and registering are more or less as follows for Zurich:
You will need written confirmation from your local authority (Gemeinde) which costs about Chf 31. Requirement as to what this is is shown clearly in info sheets published by the Registry. Link already given by jrspet
The Registry itself will charge you Chf 281 which includes a commercial register extract.

So, about Chf 310 and you're up and running in ZH.