Practitioner Tools,
Not Guesswork
Choosing where and how to structure an international business involves trade-offs that are easy to get wrong and expensive to unwind. These tools are built by Swiss corporate practitioners from day-to-day client work, to give you a clear, honest starting point before you take advice. They are designed to inform your thinking, not to replace a conversation about your specific situation.
Where Should You Structure Your Business?
A side-by-side comparison of Switzerland, Singapore, the United Kingdom, the UAE, Germany, Malta, and Cyprus across the criteria that decide whether a structure works: tax treatment, banking access, substance requirements, privacy, treaty network, holding-company suitability, and political stability. Each jurisdiction carries a weighted score and a practitioner’s verdict on what it is genuinely best suited for.
- Effective and headline corporate tax, withholding tax, and VAT or GST
- Banking access, substance requirements, and shareholder privacy
- Double-tax-treaty depth and holding-company suitability
- Minimum capital, formation timeline, and annual compliance cost
- A weighted overall score out of 100 and a per-jurisdiction verdict
What Would Your Structure Actually Cost?
An interactive calculator that models the effective tax cost of holding and distributing profit across a range of jurisdictions, so you can see how the headline rate compares with what you would really pay once distributions and structure are taken into account. Enter your figures, choose your scenario, and see the comparison built around your own numbers.
- Effective tax modelled across multiple jurisdictions, not just headline rates
- Profit-distribution and holding scenarios
- A clear side-by-side cost comparison built from your inputs