Thank you for your message. It is hard to describe every detail which are part of the total solution so i understand how it sounds and may sound off. However for example my foreign companies have employees and directors etc, so there is not risk or even possibility of being judged as Swiss company.

However, you are right, i think someone possibly familiar with the situation could draw the lines. As said it does not matter how i do this, as long as it is done in a right way from the beginning.

Thank you very much for support

Better get proper advice as the tax authorities may have a completely different view

I would certainly check the citizen/resident bit properly.

The company I work for is a small AG. Our Swiss person who runs the company is not Swiss but has a proper permit. She is moving abroad and my B permit (which allows me to live and work here for 5 years) is not good enough to be sole Swiss Director. We are having to add a "real" Swissy.

Our new real Swissy is actually a EU person with the right permit.

If your permit does forbid you to work it is highly unlikely it allows you to do Swiss-like things for your Swiss company. There's not much of that but I believe it includes any government docs that need signing. Eg. Tax returns.

Also, most VAT rules are based on place of supply. If your clients are abroad but the payment comes via a Swiss subsidiary you MAY be OK. But you will have to a) document it very, very clearly, and b) be prepared to fight. The VAT people seem to make up their own interpretation of the rules. (Hint: not in your favour).

VAT also depend on what you sell. Services can be a grey area.

Whatever you do, do not invoice in CHF.

Regards


Ian

For SA / AG as well as SaRL GmBH, Swiss residency is needed, not citizenship.

So, the new Swissy is not 'Swiss'.

Permit C. Quasi Swiss.

If only....

Whichever permit it is, it has been decreed they are Swiss enough... unlike me.

Regards

Ian

Sounds like you need that accountant after all....


Swiss resident. Not citizen.