Digital threats

Email phishing

Updated on 2 Apr 2026

Phishing emails purporting to be from the Federal Tax Administration (FTA) are currently in circulation. These claim to contain an official notification regarding a refund. Please ignore these emails, do not click on any links they contain, do not disclose any personal data and delete these emails. Further measures can be found on the website of the Federal Office for Cyber Security.

Updates to VAT practice, drafts, practice consultation

The FTA publishes updates to its VAT practice as drafts and provides the possibility to its partners to submit comments (practice consultation).

Draft of the VAT practice – practice consultation (deadline for comments is running)

Form

Drafts of the VAT practice are labelled with the following note: «Draft dated xx.xx.202x» (as a watermark diagonally per page). The title page of the respective draft contains the following note: «Draft dated xx.xx.202x prior to the practice consultation by the Consultative Committee».
The drafts in connection with the partial revision of the VAT Act are labelled with the abbreviation «revVATA» in the title.

If no documents are currently displayed here, there are no drafts at this stage.

Draft of the VAT practice – practice consultation (deadline for comments closed)

If no documents are currently displayed here, there are no drafts at this stage.

Please note: only the German and French version are published. Unfortunately, translation into Italian and English will not be possible in due time. It has therefore been decided that no draft version in Italian and English language will be published. The final version of the VAT Info No. 27 will be available in all four languages.

Publications on VAT practice

Contact

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Specific enquiries (German)

Federal Tax Administration FTA
Main Division Value Added Tax
Schwarztorstrasse 50
3003 Berne