Why Switzerland
Assess the fit for your family, private wealth and business
Helping people move since 2012Offices in Zurich, Zug and SchwyzFamily and business planning together
A long-term family base
Start with the life you intend to build
Choose a municipality around daily life
Assess each adult’s planned activities
Coordinate each person’s residence position
For a high-net-worth family, the location decision reaches beyond a tax comparison. Consider where children will study, how often you need to travel, which languages the household uses and where business responsibilities remain. A useful shortlist begins with those facts.
Turn broad preferences into a home, school and workplace combination that can be tested. Visit the municipality, try daily journeys and decide what would make a staged move preferable to moving everyone at once.
Banking and wealth coordination
Choose services around your assets and reporting needs
Payments, custody, advice or management
Prepare ownership and source-of-wealth records
Compare fees and the proposed mandate
Separate the jobs you need a bank to perform. Personal wealth, an operating company and a family office may require different accounts, reporting and relationships. Ask institutions to confirm whether they can consider your residence, tax status and proposed assets.
Prepare the evidence of how wealth was accumulated and where expected transfers will come from. Banks make their own acceptance decisions. Relocation coordination helps sequence the preparation and introductions with the wider move; it does not guarantee an account or investment outcome.
School choice for international families
Match the curriculum, language and journey to the child
Explore the local school system
Check curriculum and available places
Test the journey for the child’s grade
Compare public and international education around your children’s ages, current studies, language needs and likely length of stay. Local public schooling can support integration; an international curriculum may suit a family maintaining continuity across countries. Ask the schools what support is available.
Confirm admissions and the correct campus before choosing a home. Include travel, after-school arrangements and any learning support in the comparison. A school’s reputation does not establish availability, suitability for an individual child or future university admission.
Healthcare preparation
Plan continuity of care as part of the move
Confirm insurance duties and start dates
Arrange continuity for ongoing treatment
Compare premiums and personal costs
Swiss residence normally brings a requirement to obtain health insurance, with exceptions depending on the circumstances. Confirm the position for each family member, the deadline and the effective date through the relevant authority or insurer. Include premiums and personal cost-sharing in the household budget.
Before arrival, identify existing prescriptions, ongoing treatment and the records a new clinician will need. Ask providers about appointment availability and language needs. Coverage and clinical decisions belong with insurers and healthcare professionals.
Personal and business tax planning
Compare complete scenarios with qualified advisers
Cantonal systems to consider
Model income, assets and circumstances
Assess operations and management separately
Compare the same facts across shortlisted municipalities: household income, assets, family circumstances and the actual business plan. Personal residence and company location need separate analysis. Request a written calculation with assumptions and the applicable tax year rather than choosing from a headline rate.
Expenditure-based taxation is available to qualifying foreign nationals who become Swiss tax resident for the first time or after at least ten years abroad and do not undertake gainful activity in Switzerland. Both spouses living together must meet the conditions. Managing a business or family office from Switzerland needs specific assessment; foreign clients or ownership alone do not establish eligibility.
Test everyday life
The practical details decide whether a location fits
Visit at the time you would travel
Check office and airport journeys
Explore the places your family would use
Use a scouting visit to test the ordinary week. Look at shops, transport, activities, school routes and access to the services you rely on. Compare an apartment near work with a larger home that requires more travel.
Budget using current housing enquiries, school information and insurance quotes. Keep deposits, recurring costs and one-off relocation expenses separate. The relocation budget planner lets you compare Zurich, Zug and Schwyz using your own figures.
A Swiss base for entrepreneurs
Connect the operating model with the founder’s move
Define what will happen in Switzerland
Confirm the right to live and work
Assign responsibilities before launch
A business move starts with the proposed activities: management, employees, customers, contracts, assets and financing. Ask specialists to compare suitable structures and the cross-border implications. A company can be incorporated without resolving every immigration, tax, banking or licensing question.
Before an exit or restructuring, coordinate advisers in the departure country and Switzerland. Record intended work after the transaction, retained ownership and any deferred payments. Build the family move around assessed facts and confirmed dependencies.
Ready to turn Switzerland into an executable plan?
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