Tax services

Most of the decisions and transactions that companies and private individuals are led to make during their lives often have unexpected tax consequences.

ATEP Legal & Tax SA offers its clients a wide range of personalized tax services that have been specifically designed to identify and limit tax risks, as well as to provide the greatest possible tax savings.

We assist you in meeting your challenges by assessing your global tax situation and your objectives, by seeking and implementing the most suitable tax structures and by taking care to minimize your tax risks during transactions such as mergers, demergers, transfer of assets, acquisitions, sale or purchase of real estate …)

We advise and assist you on all the important tax aspects that you may be facing, including:

• direct taxation
• capital gains tax on property and on real estate (property taxation)
• presumptive tax when transferring residence
• tax within the context of your estate planning and transfer of assets or donations in the creation of foundations and trusts
• in the drawing up of your tax returns.

We help companies organize temporary secondment and with transferring their executives (expats). We advise them on filling out Swiss salary certificates and on the taxation of stock options or pension schemes.

Swiss and European tax laws on VAT and customs duties are constantly changing. Non-identified VAT risks can put a company in jeopardy. We help Swiss companies that are active internationally and foreign companies established in Switzerland to identify risks as well as to optimize their processes.

Our advice and support includes the creation of tax-optimized legal structures, negotiation of individual tax rulings, development of solutions for the repatriation of profits, avoiding international double taxation and tax-effective exploitation of intangible property rights.