Hi there,
My partner and I (NZ and Austria) are moving to the UK after having lived in Switzerland for a few years. We will continue working for a Swiss based company in the first few months and now we are wondering where we have to pay taxes? In the UK or in Switzerland? Can anyone recommend a tax expert who knows both situations in Switzerland and the UK? We have other questions too, so it would be great to be able to talk to someone who knows about these things.
Thanks a lot,
Valerie

You could start with these guys:

http://www.blevinsfranks.com/

tax: wherever you're resident?

you'll have deregistered in Switzerland?
how is the company paying for your services? Is the contract changing once you leave the country? What is happening to your 2nd pillar pension fund?

Hi,
thanks for that. This is only for UK citizens though. My partner has a UK passport, but I'm Austrian.

I know a tax-expert/lawyer type person.

But he is an a-hole - and so won't be recommending him

Yeah, usually I think you would pay wherever you're registered and we will definitely register in the UK.
We will be working on and off for our film production company that my partner is a co-owner of. The contract wouldn't have to change for us, but it could. However is more convenient for us. The company is really flexible and so far we were just paid into our Swiss bank accounts.
We might also come back to Switzerland to do some bigger jobs when needed, but at the same time work in the UK on a freelance basis. I guess the creative industry is just like that, but we want to do everything correctly. Other people must be in the same situation, working in different countries and living in another?

where is the film production company registered? Is it the company you mentioned in the first post?

you seem to be drip-feeding the information - thank goodness we're not being paid by the hour like an accountant would be....

Sorry, this must be annoying. I'm not used to this whole forum thing...
The company is a Swiss registered company. We are both employed and registered in Switzerland and in May we are moving to the UK. We don't have work there yet, because we are both still involved in film projects here in Switzerland and the Swiss production company will still send us jobs to do in the first few months.
We will unregister here in Switzerland and register in the UK and we will look for freelance film jobs there too.
The UK jobs we will of course pay taxes on in the UK.
What I am unsure about is where we pay taxes for the Swiss jobs. So far we've payed them here of course.

I would recommend a normal accountant in the UK. Just talk to them....it should not be complicated. I know one but have had no dealing with them for nearly 20 years!!

I'd say you have lots of chance to avoid taxes and I'd expect a UK accountant to recommend payment in dividends, maybe via a UK limited company.