On 29 November 2011 it has been published that Switzerland’s Federal Council has adopted the dispatches on four further double taxation agreements (DTAs), which will now be submitted to parliament for approval.
The negotiated economic benefits of the DTAs include reductions in withholding tax, or even tax exemption for dividends, interest and royalty payments in the source state, as well as arbitration clauses within the scope of mutual agreement procedures.
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