Thinking of investing in real estate in Switzerland

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@oswand

With a company you also have other advantages, since you do not own the real estate. You might sell it and won’t have to pay any taxes on it, because there is no capital gains tax for selling shares.

You would think, but this is not the case. This counts as “Wirtschaftliche Handänderung” and is treated in the same way as the default “Zivilrechtliche Handänderungen”. If something is essentially a sale of your real estate property, how you go about it doesn’t matter.

For reference check 5.3.2.2 in Besteuerung
der Grundstückgewinne (German) by SKK.