Hi all.

How about spouses of diplomats working at the WTO? I believe there is an agreement between the WTO and the canton of Geneva allowing spouses to work, but I´m not sure if it includes self-employment. If it does, what type of permit would it be? Are there any restrictions?

Permits don't change. In Switzerland there is no separate work permit. You either have a B/C/L with authorization to work or without, etc. If you have authorization to work you most likely can be self employed but you need to ask. Read you permit. It should tell you.

Could self employed people please advice me on this thread that I just started?

In this case they probably do . A diplomat's spouse with a Ci permit would change to a B permit if employed or self employed.

Yeah. "Permits don't change" is not what I meant to write... I wanted to say that there are not separate resident & work permits.

(Hey, what can I say, I've given up coffee & it shows! )

Hi guys. I've started to read this thread a couple of times but I must admit I never got through all the 20 pages or so. I've also tried to search for some clues as to the truth of the claims that have been made in another thread, but so far without success. There it has been said that if you have a day job you can start your "business" (as long as it's not more than 100k/year) by keeping simple accounts of your extra earnings and declaring it on top of your normal salary. So say I wanted to earn some extra money housekeeping, or whatever, could I do that without registering or paying a bookkeeper? As I wouldn't be earning a fortune it wouldn't be worth all that trouble. But if it's as simple as this, I'd very much like to earn some extra francs. Would I have to be able to give a receipt or anything? (Not that many people would ask for it...)
The other question is this. My salary is now declared together with my husband's salary (well, not exactly declared as we are only submitting the at source correction sheet) and he's taxed at source based on our common income. Am I right in supposing we'd have to file a regular tax return file if I was earning any more on top of that?
Thank you ever so much for your help, or even for pointing me to the page of this thread that I should be reading.
Have a nice weekend.
FS

branching out professionally

Almost but not quite as simple as that. You just have to register with the AHV/SVA as you will need to make self emploment payments on top of your employment contributions.

And yes, file a tax return.

Hi,
I remember that when I was working at UK I could work as a freelance being paid at my home country (EU too) for a maximun of 6 months.
Anybody knows whether this rule applies also here in Switzerland, please?
Thanks