Melissa Kessel started her career in the tax field in 2009 at a leading tax consultancy in Ticino and then moved on to a long experience at one of the Big Four firms in Lugano and Neuchâtel. In 2020 she joined the Besfid SA team and is currently completing her Master of Advanced Studies in Tax & Law at SUPSI. She currently focuses on:

Tax consultancy in the field:

• Individuals
• Social Security
• Real Estate
• Inheritance tax
• International
• Self-disclosure and simplified recovery procedures for heirs
• Appeals procedures
• Planning and negotiation with tax authorities and ruling
• DTA applications and recovery of foreign withholding taxes
• WHT recovery and global computation
• Recovery and correction domestic tax at source
• Inspections

Compliance:

• Tax returns for individuals and legal entities
• Global taxation with corresponding control calculation
• Taxation of real estate profits
• VAT (registration, periodic VAT statements and annual reconciliation)
• Tax at Source
• Social security charges

Various consultations:

• Consultancy for HNWI
• Relocation to Switzerland or abroad
• Expatriates
• Application for residence and work permits (including third countries)
• Management of domestic staff
• Multidisciplinary consulting and family office services
• Translations

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