Swiss parcel VAT: ceiling, crossing month, registration deadline

It recomputes the Swiss small-consignment ceiling from the VAT rate you select, because the legal rule is that import tax of CHF 5 or less is not levied. At 8.1% that is CHF 61.72, at 2.6% CHF 192.30. It then turns your year-to-date sales into the month you cross CHF 100,000 and the date you must register.

Non-Swiss online sellers shipping parcels into Switzerland from the EU, the UK or the US, and the bookkeepers who watch their thresholds. If you send low-value consignments to Swiss customers and have never registered with the Federal Tax Administration, this is the number that decides whether you must.

Both still print CHF 65 and CHF 200. Those came from the 7.7% and 2.5% rates that ended on 2024-01-01; at today's 8.1% and 2.6% the real ceilings are CHF 61.72 and CHF 192.30. A guide also cannot date your crossing month, because that depends on your own run rate.

Every calculation is free and unlimited: the ceiling, the parcel verdict, the run rate, the crossing month, the registration date and the VAT exposure. The paid key adds a different axis entirely, ownership and repetition: a dated CSV audit trail you keep, and a reminder that fires before the 30-day deadline.

Swiss fiscal representation runs about CHF 1,500 to CHF 3,500 a year plus roughly CHF 500 for the registration itself. That bill is unavoidable once you cross, but paying it a quarter early, or discovering the crossing after the Federal Tax Administration does, is the expensive version.