I am leaving CH very soon to return to UK and wanted to share some info with you.
I found pdf which can be found at link below v.useful (Info for Foreign Nationals). Also I found out from someone else who left to return to UK, that the amount that has to be left here (obligatory) can be used towards a deposit if you want to buy a house in UK. Funnily enough my pension dept at work did not offer this information (wonder why..!)
Pls note I only have info regarding move back to UK.
Hope this helps anyone else in same situation.
Jo

http://www.bsv.admin.ch/themen/ueber...x.html?lang=en

Hardly suprising as the Swiss don't very often buy their own property as it's never been a particually good investment here, partially due to tax on the rental valueof your own home & CGT on the sale.

Property is valued by land value + the cost of the house less depreciation.

As already meantioned here.

Hi,

I am a little bit slow reader, so if someone read the document in the link carefully, please give yes or no to my question. If the answer is yes, I will read the document very carefully and make sure I will get all my money back.

When I came to switzerland I was told that if I pay 6%, company pays 12% on top of that and in the case I leave the country I will get everything at once. Obviously it is not that simple...

Finally, the question:
If I go back to Finland, is there a way to get all the money I spend for 2nd pillar (plus the money my company paid on top of that) back?

I suspect it's 6% and 6% making 12% in total!

If you buy a house or become 100% self employed in CH.
I wonder if you can become 100% self employed & leave CH the following month?

wait you get this if you become selfemployed also?

Yes. (Ok, now go read carefully) ;-)

Isn´t Finland an EU country?

I think this (the 2nd pillar refund) only applies to non EU countries.

Am i wrong?

That is correct, which is why being 100% self employed for a month seems like a good idea, if it works.

Good point! I now have to change my answer to "No". You can't take the money if you move to a EU country. Only if you move out of EEA/EU. But it will be paid to you monthly when you retire as part of your pension.

You can also take all in cash upto 5? years before state retirement age.

Where can you take it?

As cash or you can start reveiving the pension.

You can take all of you cash out instead of having it paid out monthly? Can you be more specific? Where can you do this? In the EU/EEA, Finland? Where?

With the Swiss pension in general, you can take as 100% cash, you don't need to leave CH.