News & Media
2021-05-24
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA is updating the procedure of the online identification using the NFC verification by scanning the chip embedded in biometric identity documents.
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- AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN SWITZERLAND AND CANADA
2017-01-10 |
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AUTOMATIC EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION BETWEEN SWITZERLAND AND CANADA
Switzerland and Canada are to start providing administrative assistance to each other in relation to taxation periods beginning on or after January 1, 2017 under the Agreement entered into under the Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters (as amended by the 2010 Protocol). The Convention shall facilitate the automatic exchange of information for tax purposes based on OECD/G20 Common Reporting Standard.
The Convention is a multilateral treaty designed to improve international tax cooperation between the tax authorities of its signatory countries and to tackle tax evasion and avoidance.
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News & Media
2021-04-07
The publishing of this case report confirms FINMA's accountability obligations regarding its enforcement activities. The case report includes anonymized and generalized cases which were concluded with a court decision.
News & Media
2021-04-06
Bern, April 04, 2021 – The Swiss Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI) took an active role in 280 cases of “Swissness” excessive use in 2020. The IPI controls the use of the Swiss national emblem and destroys such goods during the customs examination. Now private and high officials start working together to control the “Swissness” fare dodger abroad.
News & Media
2020-12-15
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA recommends that the supervised parties affected by the LIBOR replacement sign the new Fallback Protocol of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) in the shortest time possible.
