About
The Swiss taxation of cryptocurrencies is one of the most favourable in the world for a private investor. It is also poorly explained, scattered across a federal working paper, a 2012 circular written for shares, twenty-six cantonal practices and forums where everyone has an opinion.
The result: many holders declare incorrectly, or not at all. Some pay tax they do not owe. Others build up a situation that will become costly on the day data starts to flow between administrations.
Fiscoin exists to fill this gap, in French, German, Italian and English, for people resident in Switzerland.
Fiscoin is published by Manon Friedrich, from French-speaking Switzerland.
I am not a tax adviser, a lawyer or an investment adviser, and I do not claim to be. I studied for a bachelor's degree in Applied Foreign Languages (LEA) at Bordeaux Montaigne University, specialising in international marketing, which included courses in private, commercial and European law. That was French law, but it is where I got into the habit of reading legal texts without being afraid of them. That is exactly what this subject requires.
I became interested in cryptocurrencies at the same time as the people close to me, who have been following them for several years. And when I looked for how to declare my own correctly in Switzerland, all I found were dry official texts, guides written for France (where the tax logic is the opposite of ours) and forums where everyone has an opinion.
I spent months untangling the subject for myself. Fiscoin is what I would have wanted to find.
My value is not authority, it is the research: going back to the official texts, comparing them, and making them readable. What I do not know, I say. Anything that concerns your personal situation is a matter for a professional, and I will tell you so.
Every statement goes back to an official text: the working paper of the Federal Tax Administration, circular no. 36, the DBG, the StHG, cantonal guidance. These sources are listed and available to everyone.
Where administrative practice is not settled (lending at federal level, most decentralised finance operations), we say so instead of deciding for you.
The guides are reviewed by a tax professional before publication. Each document shows its edition date and the tax period it covers.
No content is published because a partner asked for it. If this website ever recommends a tool, it will state whether it receives any payment for doing so.
For a complex situation (intensive trading, business income in cryptocurrencies, regularising undeclared past years), consult a tax adviser. We will always tell you so.
Other countries will follow, one by one, at the pace at which each can be kept seriously up to date. Outdated tax content is dangerous content: three countries done right are better than ten done approximately.
If you want to influence the order, let us know: contact@fiscoin.ch.
Manon Friedrich – contact@fiscoin.ch – published in Switzerland.
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