ESTV Suisse Tax – submit VAT forms online
Submit VAT forms online – until present, you received the VAT declaration forms by post to complete with your signature and forward to the Swiss Federal Tax Administration (ESTV). Currently, we are finalizing the steps to improve the electronic services by 1st July 2018. In the near future, the online platform of the Swiss Federal Tax Administration – ESTV SuisseTax – will be used to prepare and submit all VAT forms. There will be no more paper forms issued.
What needs to be done?
Power of Attorney
- As of 15 July 2018, you will receive by post a form (PoA) issued by the ESTV.
- The form requires your signature – if you approve – and must be returned to the ESTV (see “User profile”).
- The ESTV reviews and processes the form accordingly.
- After the verification process has been completed successfully we receive an e-mail.
- We then provide you an invitation online (to find on ESTV SuisseTax) to approve you as user/superuser.
- For the final completion (linking our business with yours), we kindly ask you to accept the invitation in order to be able to verify, clear and declare the VAT.
User profile
Please create your own user-profile immediately after signing and forwarding the PoA to the ESTV.
By having your own profile on “ESTV SuisseTax”, you can create, correct, review and forward the VAT forms online.
Your advantages:
- Save time
- Always able to access and track the current status of your VAT declaration
- You manage additional users by assigning the rights accordingly
Unfortunately the guidelines for this new registration are only available in German (see PDF “ESTV SuisseTax” “Benutzeranleitung – Registrierung, Bevollmächtigung und Berechtigungsverwaltung” but please feel free to contact us at Lenz Treuhand, we are happy to support you with any questions or queries you may have.
Cut out from the PDF of the ESTV SuisseTax “Benutzeranleitung – Registrierung, Bevollmächtigung und Berechtigungsverwaltung”:
4.1.2 The roles and permissions in ESTV SuisseTax
The selection of the role as superuser is recommended. Also, there are other roles with restricted authorizations which cover the different needs.
Person who fills out the form “Ausfüller”: Able to fill in forms electronically for preparation (currently only available for the tax area VAT).
Person who hands in the form “Einreicher”: Able to fill in forms electronically and submit them directly to the ESTV (available for all tax areas).
Superuser: Able to fill in forms electronically and submit them to the ESTV, inviting further users and configurate their permissions (available for all tax areas).
Technical user “Technischer Benutzer”: Able to adjust the configurations for the machine-to-machine submission (currently only available for the tax area exchange of information).
Superuser can approve all types of roles (including superuser) to other users. In each case, at least one superuser per eligible tax area must be warranted to exist in ESTV SuisseTax.
Further information can be found on the homepage of the Swiss Federal Tax Administration ESTV.
If you have any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to contact your contact person at the Lenz Treuhand in Zurich or Uzwil.
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