-- days left to reclaim VAT on your 2025 business travel expenses
BUSINESS TRAVEL VAT
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Foreign VAT reimbursement on business travel

You paid foreign VAT on business travel last year. You have until 30 June to claim it back.

VAT rates of 5–25% apply to every hotel, conference and supplier invoice abroad. We identify what qualifies, file before the deadline, and charge nothing until the refund is yours.

No reimbursement, no fee.

Example expenses
Hotel, 4 nightsDubaiCHF 2’400
Conference fees, 2 attendeesMilanCHF 1’800
Equipment hire, 3-day shootBerlinCHF 1’200
Rental car + fuel, 3 daysFrankfurtCHF 540
Client dinnersLondonCHF 480
Taxis, week of meetingsParisCHF 320
Total expensesCHF 6’740
CHF 1’120
potentially reimbursable
Quick estimate

How much could you reclaim?

Your annual business travel and event spend abroad

Enter your annual gross business travel and event spend abroad (VAT inclusive). Only count expenses outside your country of registration.

CHF 0
potentially reimbursable

* Other jurisdictions may also be eligible in specific cases. We confirm this during the assessment.

The amounts

How much is sitting unclaimed — and for which types of company.

Any company with cross-border travel, events or client activity abroad accumulates reimbursable VAT. These are illustrative cases across the range we see.

2-person consultancy
CHF 4k8k
Quarterly client trips — Munich, Paris, Dubai. Hotels, restaurants, transport, occasional conferences.
Creative or communications agency
CHF 15k35k
International festivals and trade shows — pitches, sponsorships, hotel blocks for clients and talent.
Foreign company reclaiming Swiss VAT
CHF 40k55k
Pharma, banking, VC, family office events and Art Basel — hotels, venues, transport, supplier invoices. Eligible expenses include hotel blocks, venue hire, transport and supplier invoices where Swiss VAT is separately itemised on the invoice.

Two things typically prevent reimbursement. Deadlines are strict — often 30 June of the year following the expense. Documentation must be correct — invoices normally need the VAT shown separately and the company named properly. By the time finance teams review travel spend, the window may already be closing.

The deadline for 2025 expenses is 30 June 2026.

Free assessment

Send the invoices. Receive a written assessment.

Send the foreign business expenses you would like reviewed — invoices, receipts or expense summaries, in any format. No need to organise anything first — send what you have. We assess, we write, we tell you exactly what is reimbursable, what needs corrected invoices, and what falls outside the rules. You receive a written report by email.

The assessment is free, with no commitment required. We reply within five working days.

VAT reimbursement claims for 2025 expenses must be filed by 30 June 2026 · We do not publish client names, amounts or case studies.

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Why it goes unclaimed

Foreign VAT on business travel is legitimate and reimbursable. Most companies never pursue it.

Companies leave it unclaimed because the process is demanding and most providers are built for large corporates — as if the deadlines were different for smaller companies, or the tax authorities less strict, or the money less real.

BUSINESS TRAVEL VAT does that work. From Switzerland, with the standards of Swiss Ledger AG.

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How we work

Send what you have. We handle everything from there.

CC us
Add your dedicated email address to every booking — confirmations reach us automatically.
Connect your system
Give us read access to your expense or accounting system. We pull what we need.
Email it
Forward bookings and receipts to your dedicated email address as they arrive.
Use SecureSafe
Upload to your private Swiss-hosted SecureSafe workspace when convenient.
Message us directly
For clients who require end-to-end encrypted communication. Swiss-hosted, military-grade encrypted — Threema Work available on request.
Post it
Send physical receipts and invoices to our office. We scan and process them, and return the originals on request.
Then
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You send the expenses through whichever method works best for you.

02

We assess eligibility by jurisdiction and deliver a written report — what’s reimbursable, what isn’t, and why.

03

If you proceed, we prepare and file the reimbursement applications, follow them through to payment and transfer the reimbursed amounts to you.

04

You pay only on success — 35% of the amount reimbursed. No reimbursement, no fee.

No reimbursement, no fee.

Where reimbursement applies

Reimbursement applies where the rules between jurisdictions allow it.

Swiss → abroad

Swiss companies reclaiming VAT in the European Union, the EEA, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates and other eligible jurisdictions.

Foreign → Switzerland

Foreign companies reclaiming Swiss VAT — including but not limited to companies based in the EU, the UK, and the UAE.

Other combinations

Combinations between two foreign countries where reciprocity or refund rules permit — for example, a UK company reclaiming UAE VAT or a German company reclaiming Norwegian VAT. In certain cases, we can also approach tax authorities directly to explore reimbursement where no formal treaty exists. We assess feasibility during the initial review.

Each case depends on the rules between the relevant jurisdictions. The free assessment establishes what applies — typically within five working days.

What reimbursement requires

Incomplete documentation does not have to end the claim. We obtain corrected invoices on your behalf.

What an invoice must show

The relevant tax authority expects documentation in the correct form. The invoice must usually show VAT separately, name the company correctly, identify the supplier with its VAT number and fall within the reimbursement period.

VAT amount shown separately
Company name on the invoice
Supplier’s VAT number
Within the reimbursement period

What we do when it falls short

Many companies do not claim reimbursement because their invoices do not meet this standard. Hotels issue generic receipts, conference organisers send confirmations rather than invoices, and online bookings show totals without VAT itemised separately.

Where this happens, documentation can often be reissued. When it can, we do the work of obtaining it: contacting hotels, organisers, suppliers and booking platforms in the local language, requesting corrected invoices and following up until they reply.

Your dashboard

Track each claim from filing to payment.

Every client receives a personal dashboard — view filed claims, status updates and received payments in one place.

Once a claim is filed, you see exactly where it stands — submitted, under review, approved or paid. Every reimbursed amount, jurisdiction and status in one view.

Total reimbursed
CHF 47’320
12 cases settled
Active cases
9
across 6 jurisdictions
Awaiting decision
CHF 31’290
5 cases
Average time
94 days
submission to payment
Recent cases
Case Jurisdiction Amount Status
Q1 2026 — Munich, Berlin Germany CHF 8’420
Q1 2026 — London, Edinburgh United Kingdom CHF 4’180 Approved
Q1 2026 — Dubai UAE CHF 2’640 Filed
Q4 2025 — Milan, Rome Italy CHF 6’120
Q1 2026 — Geneva, Zurich Switzerland CHF 12’840 Approved
Q4 2025 — Paris, Lyon France CHF 3’960 Under review
Reimbursed, by quarter
Q3 25
Q4 25
Q1 26
Q2 26
Q3 2025 Q1 2026
Contact

Ready to see what’s reimbursable? Send us three months of travel receipts and we’ll do the rest.

BUSINESS TRAVEL VAT BY SWISS LEDGER
Swiss Ledger AG
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8808 Pfäffikon SZ
Switzerland
CHE-230.067.843
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