Switzerland

Firm overview

TAX EXPERT International AG is an unique and highly recognized practice. Our Certified Tax Experts focus on national and international taxation affecting both business entities and individuals.

We offer a comprehensive range of tax planning services that encompass tax-free mergers, spin-offs, restructuring, reorganizations, acquisitions, business formations, liquidations and - more importantly - Independent tax reviews or opinions.

In addition, to full-range corporate tax counseling, TAX EXPERT International AG has extensive experience that covers the full spectrum from all aspects of individual taxation including executive incentive compensation and employee stock ownership arrangements to inheritance, gifts, estates and real estate.

Whether it is advice on the implementation of complex national or transnational tax minimization strategies, or support in compliance matters, we help MNEs, stock-quoted companies, corporations, joint ventures, entrepreneurs, partnerships, high-net-worth individuals, expatriates and inpatriates to respond effectively, managing their exposure to tax liability and complying with regulations.

With us you have chosen "A Partnership for Success"

Firm overview

burckhardt advises entities and their owners in domestic and international tax questions and restructurings and renders estate tax planning services.

A substantial part of our activity we spend with the long-term tax planning in the field of corporate tax as well as succession and estate planning of individuals. We draw tax efficient reorganization plans and coordinate in international situations with our colleagues abroad. We render advice in domestic and international situations to groups of companies and their subsidiaries, to family owned businesses and their owners, to real estate transactions as well as in tax dispute situations. Long-term tax planning, restructuring and conversions, purchase and sale of entities, joint ventures and review of alternatives in corporate financing are our core competences. We assist in choosing the legal entity form and in designing your business structure, in transferring shares or in splitting off parts of enterprises. To safeguard family wealth succession and estate planning is of utmost importance for us.

Firm overview

Ludwig + Partner Ltd. was established by four Partners in 2011 who worked together in the tax team of a major Swiss law firm in Basel for many years. 

The team consists of 13 professionals and six assistants. Nine of the professionals are admitted attorneys at law and five thereof Swiss Certified Tax Experts. The firm's competence in the fields of law and tax is strengthened by a Civil Law Notary, administrative tax advisers and a chartered accountant. The partners and the better part of the professionals have worked together for many years, The firm is built on continuity. Using long-term relationships, the team members obtain experience from which their clients can profit daily; because good solutions are simple and pragmatic. To be able to find them is the teams' daily challenge.

All of the firm's tax experts daily advise clients in various areas of tax law and have their individual focus and specialisations. Likewise they are further involved in the field of commercial law. This duality enables the clients to profit from the interdisciplinary knowledge and comprehensive optic which defines the firms' advice. Ludwig + Partner Ltd. offers comprehensive advice in the fields of tax and corporate and commercial law, on a high level, at fair local conditions.

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Led by Reto Gerber, the Deloitte Switzerland Tax & Legal practice currently numbers approximately 340+ professionals and has won the "Swiss Tax Firm of the Year award" from ITR for the eighth year in a row.

Deloitte Switzerland’s comprehensive range of services of Tax services — including Business Tax, International Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions Tax, Transfer Pricing, Indirect Tax, Tax Management Consulting, Global Employer Services, Private Client Services, Financial Services Tax Advisory — resulted in significant project wins across all industries. 

Our integrated approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help clients to excel.

Deloitte Switzerland’s strong collaboration with its Tax, Consulting, Audit, Risk Advisory and Financial Advisory service lines enables it to offer an integrated, innovative and holistic approach, providing highest quality, some of the best solutions possible and added value to its clients.

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Wenger Vieli advises companies and individual clients on matters of domestic and international law and taxation. Our wealth of experience and expertise in all areas of commercial law allow us to deliver precisely what our clients need.

We are a member of Meritas, one of the largest international associations of independent law firms, and collaborate with WTS Global, a worldwide network of selected tax consultancy firms.

Although our offices in Zurich and Zug are deeply rooted in the heart of Europe, we operate internationally. Whether we are working with companies or individual clients in Switzerland or overseas, our team always speaks the right language.

Firm overview

Partner Beat Baumgartner leads the Loyens & Loeff Tax team together with partner Fabian Sutter in Switzerland. The full team consists of 42 partners and 244 qualified lawyers and economists from various offices serving in all kinds of sectors. Our Swiss based team of tax specialists are embedded in a firm with a track record of nearly 100 years of integrated tax and legal work with more than 500 corporate/regulatory lawyers and 300 international tax lawyers working from our offices in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, as well as offices in all the major global financial centres (New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo).

From our Zurich office, and utilizing the global expertise across our international practice and network, we provide our clients with integrated, pragmatic and unbiased advice on all aspects of Swiss tax, legal and regulatory matters. Our clients include multinational enterprises, investment managers, private equity firms, family offices and high-net-worth individuals.