About us

Here you will find information on the Federal Tax Administration (FTA): profile, tasks, strategy, organisation and activity report.
The FTA is responsible for value added tax, direct federal tax, withholding tax and other federal levies. It provides international administrative assistance in tax matters, collects withholding taxes for other countries in accordance with international treaties and compiles tax statistics.

FTA profile

The FTA has various tasks and diverse job profiles

Management of the Federal Tax Administration

The Management is responsible for the financial, organisational and personnel management and develops the strategy and goals of the FTA.

Organigram FTA

The FTA is organised into four main departments. In addition, there is the Staff Division, Human Resources and Internal Audit.

Questions and answers about the FTA

The FTA generates the majority of federal receipts and makes an important contribution to the financing of public tasks. More information in the video.
The FTA puts the stakeholders – the taxpayers – at the centre. In future, the FTA will consistently offer services only electronically. The processing of bulk business will be digitalised step by step. A large number of procedures will be carried out purely automatically without manual intervention. The remaining cases, which are increasingly time-consuming due to their ever-growing complexity, can then be examined in greater detail. Strategy and objectives of the FTA (in German).

Contact

Contact form

+41 58 462 21 11 (Federal Agency)

Swiss Federal Tax Administration FTA
Eigerstrasse 65
3003 Berne

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