Doing business in Switzerland

Oh yes, money is everywhere welcome

Here you find a general link bout investement in Switzerland (on french)

http://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/dossiers/la … d=29024382

here in French and german interesting informations:

http://www.actoria.ch/investir%20en%20suisse.php


It's not complicated to register a company.

Here the link of every registered company:

www.zefix.ch

To create a company in Switzerland for foreigner you need first an adress in switzerland (it could be the adress where work the company).

For a simple company, you need to have still the right to work and live in Switzerland. These persons have a work autorisation "B" or "C" (Rumanian and Bulgarian persons have to become first the working autorisations, all other EU foreigner can have the working authorisation by creating the company). For a simple company you don't need a specific capital, but all the responsability is on your name. So if you have debts, you had normally to paid them complete.

For a company like an Ltd (french sàrl, german GmbH) you need a capital of minimum CHF. 20'000.--. To create this kind of company you have to go by a solicitor or a lawyer and it cost between chf. 1'500.-- to 2'500.-- swiss francs. Your responsability is limited to the invest amount (except social insurance if they are not paid)

For bigger company it gives "Limited company" with a minimum capital of chf. 100'000.-- (french société anonyme S.A., german Aktiengesellchaft AG). This kind of company gives the possiblility to the Shareholders to stay anonymous and to be only shareholder without working in Switzerland. The you are only an investor. The creation cost of such kind of company is between chf. 2'500.-- and chf. 3'500.-- (can be more depend of specifics details).

here the link of the law about create a company. only in french, german and italian.

https://www.e-service.admin.ch/wiki/dis … is/Contenu

here the link for the kind of company (english not completed see french, german or italian langages):

https://www.startups.ch/fr/vorbereiten/ … em-ausland

Specifics sectors or domain are protected. You need special autorisation for Bank, Insurance or Energy services.

Taxes:

The swiss system have more group of taxes.

Company and worker taxes are paid to the federal departement, the cantonal and the communal administration. It's different for every cantonal and communal administrations.

here a link for estimate you taxes (only for worker not for company and only french, german and italian)

http://www.estv.admin.ch/bundessteuer/d … ml?lang=fr

VAT and customs duties are to paid, but depend of the products and services you have.

here a link about basis informations for the taxes of the companies:

http://www.ch.ch/unternehmen/00182/0020 … ml?lang=en

all about VAT in Switzerland (french, german, Italian)

http://www.estv.admin.ch/mwst/aktuell/i … ml?lang=fr

All about customs duties:

http://www.ezv.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en

For the recruitement:

In Switzerland we have a good recruitement system. Most of the ask are made through newspaper. an announce cost between Chf. 100.-- to 300.-- and depend of the newspaper and how much place you need to explain your announce.

Internet gives now a good way too to find worker. paid announce are more serious as free announce. By Internet, paid announce give you more answer and the persons are more interested to work.

All persons which have no work are registered by an office (french caisse de chômage, german Arbeitslosenkasse). There you can ask for specific persons with a lot of details (specifics formation, sex, langage, age, and all what you need to have for a worker). It's free of charge and is publicated through an electronic system in all switzerland. This system is very good for worker which have to be with a formation in a high school. But you can find a person for every sectors and it's very well coordinated.

here the link:

http://www.jobarea.ch/ueberuns/rav/

Foreigner recruitement:

When you will work with foreigner in Switzerland, you have to respect some conditions.

Normally only EU lands (except Romania and Bulgaria) have facilities to work in Switzerland. But it gives specifics work which is possible to recruit from other lands. for more informations look here (french or german):

http://www.vol.be.ch/vol/fr/index/arbei … iten0.html

for specifics ask, I stay to your disposition.

any advice?  take care of your money If you don't know what to do with him, I can help you

Hi oiseaubleu,

Thanks a lot for your help!

Armand

I forget the most important advice:

some sectors have specifics law for worker (on french CCT/CCNT, on german GAV/L-GAV). These law give the obligatory informations to respect with your worker. If a company don't respect these laws, you can become a penalty between CHF 10'000.-- and 30'000.-- and the companies have to paid retroactively all what they didn't respect.

so first befor to create a company, look at these law for your businessplan (french-german-italian).

http://www.service-cct.ch/

CCT / GAV definition for every "canton" (french-german-italian)

http://www.seco.admin.ch/themen/00385/0 … ml?lang=fr