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The Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has updated the statistics on the capital contribution principle (capital contributions, repayments and other changes) as of 30 June 2020.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the weeks from 29 June - 12 July 2020.

The FTA published the 2019 tax statistics, which provide information on tax revenues and statistical analyses of natural and legal persons in Switzerland.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the week of 22 - 28 June 2020.

The Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has revised the publication "Guide for future taxpayers". It provides an overview of the assessment of income and wealth taxes for individuals.

At its meeting on 19 June 2020, the Federal Council took note of the report on a possible need to adapt tax law in the area of block chaining. The report comes to the conclusion that there is no need for specific legislative adjustments in tax law.

On 29 May 2020, the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) updated the article "Current Taxes" from the Tax Information dossier.

On May 20, 2020, the Bundesrat passed a bill to digitize tax procedures.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the week of 11 - 17 May 2020.

Since 12 May 2020, individual tax calculations, historical tax burden statistics and cantonal tax data can be generated interactively with the new online tool of the Federal Tax Administration (FTA).

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the week from 4 May - 10 May 2020.

On 7 May 2020, the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA) updated the article "Penal Provisions for Direct Taxes" from the Tax Information dossier and published a new article on "Post-taxation".

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the week of 27 April - 3 May 2020.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the week of 5 - 12 April 2020.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Administrative Court of Zurich and the decisions of the Tax Appeal Court of Zurich, published in March/early April 2020

The Federal Tax Administration (FTA) has published a revised version of the overview of selected parliamentary business in the tax field at federal level

The FTA informs that in the event of a telephone line overload, the e-mail channel should be used first (contact FTA), as this type of communication can be handled more quickly.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Zurich Administrative Court and the decisions of the Zurich Tax Appeal Court published in February/beginning of March 2020.

At its meeting on 6 March 2020, the Federal Council adopted the dispatch on the popular initiative "Relieve the burden on wages, tax capital fairly" (unofficially "99% initiative").

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Administrative Court of Zurich and the decisions of the Tax Appeal Court of Zurich, published in January and early February 2020.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court published in the week of 27 January - 2 February 2020.

On 28 January 2020, the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) updated the article "Cold progression from the tax information dossier.

Overview of the tax law decisions of the Administrative Court of Zurich and the decisions of the Tax Appeal Court of Zurich, published in December 2019.

On 8 January 2020, the Finance Directorate of the Canton of Zurich published a media release in which the number of submissions, the number of cases settled, the additional taxes incurred and the average yield per case of the voluntary declarations settled in 2019 are published.

On 30 December 2019, the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) published the 2019 tax folders.