Contributors have the possibility to regularise their situation through this easy process.
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Information Exchange … but which one?
On September 30, 2018 and for the first time in its history, the Swiss tax administration will receive information from Foreign States applying the Automatic Exchange of Information (AEI). More concretely, the tax administration will automatically receive bank balances, interest, dividends and other gains concerning individual beneficial owners of bank accounts existing on the books of foreign banks.
Switzerland, Brazil, China, Russia, Singapore or Japan will join the EU member countries that are in the first wave of the 50 “interchange” countries.
How to regularise your situation?
The approach of this deadline should encourage many taxpayers to verify their fiscal situation and regularise any element that has been omitted through a non-punishable, spontaneous denunciation procedure. To help those wishing to benefit from this possibility, a fiscal administration service has a team dedicated to this task and has created a form simplifying the procedure which has been put online.
And what are the consequences if I do not do it?
After the deadline of September 30, 2018, the AFC will no longer be able to consider new items of income or wealth declared as spontaneous. AFC will apply sanctions for the cases where there has been a subtraction of taxes due.
If the tax elements are not declared come from States who do not apply the automatic exchange yet, the same rules will be used from September 30 of the year where information exchange concerned will take place for the first time.
If you would like additional information, please contact Amedia Fiduciary as soon as possible.
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