Recent content by humorousgrape

A couple of inaccuracies here! You only need 10K and it can be CHF, EUR or USD. So in USD it's actually not so much, only around 8'700 CHF equivalent. The problem is rather that the minimum substance (an actual desk) and minimum cost for a tax advisor / accountant can easily be 7K-ish CHF per...

Swiss banks are way too expensive for non residents (even for residents sometimes) and 100K is too low. If you have 100M and you want to diversify and park a few M in Switzerland, that's when you should ask these questions.

In theory any country. E.g. the UK, traditional banking country. But if absolutely not Swiss bank will open an account for your Swiss AG your Swiss AG is useless. You picked the wrong country. Switzerland is great if you either want to have actual business in Switzerland with a somewhat strong...

I do not think anyone should support a regime that prosecutes LGBT people, journalists and so on under any circumstances whatsoever. Believe what you want, but I think it does not make much sense to demand economic freedom (no taxes) on the one hand and then turn a blind eye on all the other...

This is incorrect advice except maybe for US, Eritrea and very few countries. Most countries don't tax you based on being born there as long as you don't have any connections to that country any more like living there etc.

Geneva has pretty much the highest taxes in Switzerland in most cases, unless you are ultra rich and can negotiate (10M+ in wealth, mostly international business). To get back to the OP's question: I would go for Switzerland, specifically Central Switzerland (Zug / Schwyz, Nidwalden, Obwalden)...

In both countries of course! The 183 day rule only says that if you stay anywhere for 183 days or more then you will definitely become tax resident there. It does not say anything about what happens if you stay less. You understood the 183 day rule quite wrong it seems. In Switzerland, you will...