Switzerland

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

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"

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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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ADB Altorfer Duss & Beilstein is one of the leading tax law firms in Switzerland. Founded in 1954, we offer national and international clients comprehensive consultancy focusing on Swiss and international tax law.

From high net worth individuals to institutional investors. From the SME to the listed company. From incorporation through to succession planning. From the concept through to implementation and its reproduction in tax returns and tax assessments. We provide personal and individually tailored advice in relation to all aspects of life and business decisions with tax implications.

Our services are based on decades of professional experience and are characterised by recognised specialist expertise. With our avocational engagements as lecturers, specialist authors and judges we each provide our own additional contribution to the development of tax law.

Our strength lies in the interdisciplinary approach to tax law in our team of lawyers and economists. Our experienced team of tax experts carefully attends to your interests in all tax matters.

• Tax structuring (domestic and cross-border)
• Mergers and acquisitions/tax due diligence
• Group financing and capital markets
• Collective investment schemes
• VAT advice and compliance, incl. customs
• Transfer Pricing
• Tax effective supply chain management
• Individual tax/global mobility
• Succession planning
• Tax litigation and penal tax law
• Tax compliance
• Social security (domestic and cross-border)
• Corporate, commercial and contract law

We serve Swiss and foreign clients related to Swiss and international tax and social security questions. In addition, we provide services in selected areas of Swiss business law (corporation law, commercial law, labor law, immigration law, inheritance law).

Firm overview

Tax Partner AG is focused on Swiss and international tax law and is recognised as a leading tax boutique. With currently 11 partners and counsels and a total of approximately 45 tax experts, consisting of attorneys, legal experts and economists, the firm advises multinational and national corporate clients as well as individuals.

Tax Partner AG develops creative and well devised solutions in all areas of tax law and offers the full range of tax advice. The concentration of technical expertise and industry sector knowledge allows the development of tailor-made tax solutions for the clients. Tax Partner thereby offers a unique in-depth service quality to their clients. This focus has led to a continuous and increasing success of the firm.

Clients appreciate the efficient and customer-oriented set-up of the firm. The Partners are actively involved in day to day advice to the clients and have an important direct performance on the mandates.

Since its inception in 1997, Tax Partner’s strategy is to exclusively offer specialized tax advice to its clients. Over the past years Tax Partner AG has consequently developed important contacts to service providers engaged in the fields accompanying tax advice.

Tax Partner AG is independent and collaborates with various leading tax law firms globally. In 2005 the firm was a co-founder of Taxand – the world's largest independent organisation of highly qualified tax experts. Taxand currently has more than 2,500 tax advisors and around 550 tax partners from independent member firms in around 50 countries. Tax Partner is the Swiss Taxand member firm.

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MME is an innovative and fast-growing Swiss firm that offers integrated professional advisory and litigation services in all fields of legal, tax and compliance. MME supports and represents both companies and individuals in business and economic-related private matters.

A significant number of MME’s partners are – nationally and internationally – recognized as leading experts in their areas of practice and provide – together with their teams – made-to-measure advice and practical, cost-effective, and down-to-earth solutions improving their clients’ businesses or resolving their private economic challenges.