Federal Council puts into force the amendment to the VAT Ordinance on electronic procedures

This means that VAT registration and accounting will in future be carried out exclusively electronically.

The ordinance provides for a transitional period of one year for those companies that still submit their submissions to the FTA in paper form, so that they can get to grips with the changeover to electronic processing. The explanatory notes to the ordinance also set out the procedure to be followed if access to the portal is temporarily not possible for reasons that lie with the operator of the portal.

The media release as well as further information and documents are available here .