Whether you are an individual, a freelancer (natural person) or company (legal person), our tax experts will give you the support you need for completing your tax return(s) and guide you towards optimum fiscal solutions that are tailored to your financial position.

Natural persons

• Personalised tax inspection, planning and follow-up
• If you meet the required conditions, you can apply to the tax authority for a “tax package” (taxation according to expenditure).
• As part of an in-depth discussion about your personal and estate situation, we will guide you towards the most appropriate solutions.
• We’ll keep you regularly informed about the legal and administrative (practical) evolution in the taxation field.
• We will create your tax return(s) based on the information you give us.
• Moreover, we will estimate the amount of tax that you should pay and tailor your provisional instalments if necessary.
• We’ll additionally respond to possible requests for information from tax authorities.
• Finally, we’ll move on to verification of your tax forms and, if necessary, contest them before competent authorities.

Legal entities

• Personalised tax inspection with follow-up
• As part of an in-depth discussion about your company’s structure and estate situation, we will guide you towards the most appropriate solutions. If necessary, we will negotiate specific tax statuses (ruling) with competent tax authorities (service company and auxiliary company statuses in particular).
• We’ll keep you regularly informed about the legal and administrative (practical) development in the taxation field, specific to your company’s situation.
• Creating your company’s tax return
• If you let us set up your accounts, our accounting service will create a balance that is compatible with applicable tax regulations.
• We will create your company’s tax return based on the accounts you give us.

If you show us provisional accounts (before submitting them to the inspector and General Meeting), we will, if necessary, create a real tax account in collaboration with our accounting service.

Real Estate

• Advice concerning the acquisition of real estate property, especially when it comes to tax and relative consequences.
• With a view to creating your tax return, we’ll take care of determining tax values (fortune) and rental values (revenue) of your real estate properties that tax authorities should be informed about.
• If your property is sold to a third party, we’ll estimate the tax amount on the property earnings that you will be led to deposit and will inform you of the tax consequences of a possible purchase of a new property (re-use "remploi in french").

Inheritance

If one of your close relations dies, we will assist you in presenting an inventory of the estate to the authorities and will create the declaration of estate and tax return on the date of death on your behalf.
 

Advice, planning

The field of taxation is constantly evolving and tax legislation is becoming more and more complex. To get the best understanding of these difficulties, it is essential to call in some specialists. We can give you sound advice to help you plan the future of your private and/or commercial estate with peace of mind.

Trust Relationship

We guarantee our clients a discreet trustor-trustee relationship based on mutual trust.

Subject to the Swiss Money Laundering Act (LBA) however, we particularly stress precise identification of our contractual partners.

Creation of companies in Switzerland or abroad

Do you want to create a company in Switzerland or abroad?
We take care of all the essential administrative procedures (contacting the notary public, the commercial register, possibly banks, resident agents for foreign corporations, etc.) and will hand your “turnkey” company over to you., etc.) et vous remettons votre société «clé en main».

• In collaboration with notaries’ offices, we create all forms of companies provided for in the Code of Obligations (limited company [SA], limited liability company [Sàrl], partnership [SNC] etc.) and will make them into “turnkeys” for you with all the services you need.
• If you wish, we will also put structures in place inside foreign jurisdictions (British Virgin Islands, trust ...) through our correspondents in Switzerland and abroad.

Management of Companies

Do you want to delegate the management of your company?
First of all, if necessary, we will provide one or more managers with whom you can develop a corporate strategy and make important decisions.
Secondly, we’ll take care of all the administrative management of your company using our administration and accounting services.

DEPIGEST SA is a trust company that has the necessary resources to provide complete administrative management of your company.
Apart from regularly and annually setting up your accounts, we are also able to provide;:

• An entire administration department with answering service
• Settlement of current administrative business (monthly salary and bill payments, contact with administrations etc.)
• Handling taxes
• HR support
• Legal support
• Regular meetings

Physical address

Whether you have created your company through us or not, we make it possible for you to have a physical address near DEPIGEST SA, trust company in the rue du Rhône in Geneva.
 

Provision of workspaces

According to your needs, we can make a workspace/meeting space available to you with phone line and administration service for a long as you like. 

We can give you legal advice in numerous fields, in particular:

• Setting up contracts, reading draft contracts before they are signed, contract revision
• Broadly defined corporate law
• Tenancy rights
• Employment law
• National and private insurance

In addition, we carry out all kinds of legal research quickly and effectively, especially with efficient computing tools.
Moreover, every piece of advice that we can give you as part of our various services is, if necessary, spontaneously submitted to a legal expert for examination.

• Set up your accounting at the pace you want (freelancers and companies)
• Salary management
• Accounts and announcements in the field of Swiss national insurance (especially LAVS [Federal Law on Old Age and Survivors’ Insurance], LAA [Federal Law on Accident Insurance] and LPP [Federal Law on Occupational Retirement, Survivors’ and Disability Pension])
• Tax accounts and announcements (withholding tax, tax deducted at source and VAT)
• Accounting expertise
• Get in touch with qualified inspectors