Switzerland is the tenth best place for expats to live for low taxes, according to a new report by international expatriation specialists Bradley Hackford.
Zurich is now a more expensive place for expats to live than Geneva, according to an annual survey which ranks Switzerland's largest city as the fifth most costly place to live in the world.
Federal police have confirmed that a number of counterfeit five-franc pieces are in circulation in French-speaking Switzerland, as the Swiss post office trains its staff to spot them.
A former Swiss banker has been charged with breaking Swiss bank secrecy laws for allegedly giving confidential data to
WikiLeaks and German authorities, the Zurich public prosecutor's office said on Wednesday.
A man who opposes the expansion of a neighbouring car dealership is driving a hard bargain: he is demanding a new Mercedes in exchange for dropping his objections.
Update: The head of the Belgium office of Swiss banking giant UBS, struggling to restore its reputation after a series of scandals, was charged on Thursday in Belgium for tax fraud and money laundering.
Donald Rumsfeld, the controversial former US secretary of defence, is receiving around 5,000 francs ($5,680) a year in benefits from the Swiss social security system (AHV), according to a news report.
The number of Germans smuggling money out of Switzerland rose dramatically last year. Customs officers on the German-Swiss border said on Thursday they made a find in almost every third car they checked.
British regulators on Thursday fined an ex-Credit Suisse trader for attempting to rig the price of government bonds in order to profit from the Bank of England's quantitative easing programme.
Switzerland's second largest bank, Credit Suisse, used elaborate measures to find wealthy clients and help an estimated 19,000 US customers evade American tax authorities, a scathing report from a Senate inquiry said on Tuesday.
Residents and visitors to Lausanne are often heard complaining of the city’s unaffordable prices — and they wouldn’t be wrong. According to a new survey, the city joins Geneva and Zurich among the ten most expensive in the world.
Around 6.3 billion francs is waiting to be claimed after hundreds of thousands of workers in Switzerland changed jobs and “forgot” to transfer their occupational pension contributions, the authorities say.
Swiss banks are scrambling ahead of a December 31st deadline to decide whether to join a US programme aimed at zooming in on lenders that helped Americans dodge taxes.
Switzerland is set to end the year with healthier finances than expected and a surplus of 1.5 billion francs ($1.5 billion), the government said on Wednesday.
<p><span class="il">Switzerland</span> is the destination of choice for Europe's wealthiest industrialists, the country's Bilan magazine reported on Wednesday.</p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Swiss luxury group Richemont said on Friday</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> that it expects to post "significantly higher" operating profits in 2011, as</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> strong demand in China appeared to defy the current gloomy global economic</span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> climate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A Swiss couple has accused security staff at Zürich airport of swiping €155 from their baggage during a routine check.</span></p>
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