You are reading this article because you are an individual or a company based out of Switzerland and we have sent you an invoice containing VAT/IVA on the invoice.
Unfortunately, unlike years ago, Switzerland is not automatically fully exempt from VAT from EU countries.
The standard rate of VAT/IVA applied to any non exempt tax individual/company is 21%.
If you are a private individual, then you have to pay VAT on your invoice regardless if you are buying from outside of Switzerland.
If you are a company, then you can be exempt but we need your Registered Company Tax ID/UID (Unternehmens-Identifikationsnummer) starting with CHE and we will use that to verify the company, then we can assign your company as tax free and remove the VAT from the invoice.
Example of Swiss VAT number
You can use this site to validate/check Swiss VAT numbers: https://auditorstats.ch/ 
