{"id":2231,"date":"2023-12-13T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/2024-vat-rates-increase\/"},"modified":"2023-12-13T12:47:59","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T11:47:59","slug":"2024-vat-rates-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/2024-vat-rates-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"2024: VAT rates increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a referendum held on 25 June 2022, the Swiss people decided to increase the rates of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.estv.admin.ch\/estv\/fr\/accueil\/taxe-sur-la-valeur-ajoutee.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Value Added Tax\">Value Added Tax<\/a> in order to finance the AHV (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahv-iv.ch\/fr\/Assurances-sociales\/Assurance-vieillesse-et-survivants-AVS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Old Age and Survivors' Insurance\">Old Age and Survivors&#8217; Insurance<\/a>). The Federal Council has set the new rates to come into force on <strong>1 January 2024<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p>As a result, the standard rate of VAT applied to most goods and services will rise from <strong>7.7%<\/strong> to <strong>8.1%<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n<p>The reduced rate rises from <strong>2.5%<\/strong> to <strong>2.6%<\/strong> and mainly concerns essential goods such as foodstuffs, takeaways, medical services and newspapers.<\/p>\n\n<p> For companies working in the accommodation sector, the special rate applied to overnight stays and breakfasts will rise from <strong>3.7%<\/strong> to <strong>3.8%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">VAT rates increase in your accounts<\/h2>\n\n<p>To find out which VAT rate applies, you need to know which financial year the service is being provided. If it is in 2023, the old rate will apply. If it&#8217;s in 2024, the new rate will apply. Therefore, a service invoiced at the end of 2023 for the period 2024 will have to be at the new rate. <\/p>\n\n<p>If the service straddles 2023 and 2024, the billing should be split between the two financial years in order to apply the appropriate rate to the 2023 and 2024 portions.<\/p>\n\n<p>You then need to take this into account in your chart of accounts.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"769\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024-769x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024-769x1024.png 769w, https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024-768x1022.png 768w, https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024-1154x1536.png 1154w, https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024-600x799.png 600w, https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/plan-comptable-hausse-tva-suisse-2024.png 1468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 769px) 100vw, 769px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>In the 2023 and 2024 financial years, where the rates overlap, it is worth duplicating the accounts subject to VAT to take account of the different rates.<\/p>\n\n<p>For subsequent financial years, it is only necessary to maintain the current rates in force.<\/p>\n\n<p>Changing VAT rates in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/about-maccompta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"About MacCompta\">MacCompta Pro<\/a> is very simple. In the Chart of Accounts, simply double-click on the line of the account to be corrected, change the rate in the edit line, then save the changes.<\/p>\n\n<p>Any questions? Please do not hesitate to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/contact\/\" title=\"Contact\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a referendum held on 25 June 2022, the Swiss people decided to increase the rates of Value Added Tax in order to finance the AHV (Old Age and Survivors&#8217; Insurance). The Federal Council has set the new rates to come into force on 1 January 2024. As a result, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[74,72,73],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-info-en","tag-accounting","tag-vat","tag-vat-rates-increase"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2232,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/2232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maccompta.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}