The breakfast events "Swiss & International VAT update 2019" took place on Tuesday, 12 November 2019, in Zurich and Wednesday, 13 November 2019 in Geneva.

The VAT landscape and requirements for VAT professionals are constantly changing resulting in unknowns and uncertainties. Getting VAT wrong can greatly impact your organisation, in terms of additional costs, stiff penalties imposed by the authorities or missed opportunities to simplify.

These events will share our latest experience with Tax Authorities and provide an update about new developments, upcoming changes, and discussions regarding:

• Overview of recent and upcoming EU and international VAT / GST changes affecting companies operating outside Switzerland including the impact of the EU VAT Quick Fixes as of January 2020 as well as the planned virtual market place rules in the EU vs. the Swiss VAT rules (“small consignment stock rule / “Versandhandelsregelung” / “petits envois”), CJEU Case Law)
• Overview of recent Swiss VAT changes covering notably the latest VAT guidelines, e-filling / “Décompte TVA easy” / “MWST-Abrechnung easy” as well as learnings from recent VAT audits

Agenda:

08:00 - 08:30 Arrival, registration and welcome breakfast

08:30 - 10:00 Presentation - Q&A session

10:00 - 10:30 Networking coffee

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If you would like to find out more about the events, please do reach out to Jana Brittich. 

Key Contacts

Romy Mueller - Director, Indirect Tax

Romy Mueller is an Indirect Tax Director in the Business Tax practice of Deloitte Switzerland assisting clients with Swiss as well as International Indirect Tax matters, such as VAT, Customs & Excise Duties. In addition to that Romy has a focus on Tax Technology as well as Tax Management Consulting supporting clients with ERP implementations and automation of VAT compliance processes. Romy started her career in the Big4 environment 14 years ago and has extensive expertise in providing VAT advisory & compliance services to national and international clients. She is currently a member of our Swiss outbound team, serving Swiss based multinationals and European headquarters with a focus on business model transformation. Romy regularly teaches Master Classes for VAT and Direct Tax at Swiss Tax Law School (Kalaidos Fachhochschule). She is a German lawyer and holds a Post Academic Master’s degree in International VAT.

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Constant Dimitriou - Director, Indirect Tax

Constant is an Indirect Tax Director within Deloitte in Switzerland with more than 15 years of experience in EU VAT and Swiss VAT covering all industries, especially the trading sector. He specialises in advisory on complex international supply chain projects (structuring and optimization), VAT reviews, due-diligences, assistance with VAT audits and report and compliance.

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Tim Reck - Director, Indirect Tax

Tim is an Indirect Tax Director based in the Deloitte Zürich office. With over 18 years' experience, Tim is one of the most experienced technical experts known for his work on advising international VAT across the 28 Members of the EU and Switzerland. Tim oversees VAT planning and execution of Swiss based principals trading internationally, from the initial conception of the company through to designing the efficient supply chain, the associated compliance, and ERP implementation.  Tim is a Certified German Tax Accountant. The International Tax Review has listed Tim as an Indirect Tax Leader 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 for Switzerland.

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