Register a company in Liechtenstein, the principality of structures.

The incorporation itself, yes: through our licensed trustee partners with an apostilled KYC file. Banking is where one prepared visit usually earns its cost - LGT, LLB and VP Bank onboard at private-banking standard and like to meet the people. Some cases close by video; we tell you which yours is.

More than anywhere else we work in Europe, and deliberately so: from €6,500 turnkey for the entity, from €9,900 with banking, renewals from €4,500 a year plus the CHF 1,800 minimum tax. Foundations and TVTG projects are scoped individually. If the budget says EU flag, we'll say Estonia or Ireland; Vaduz is for cases that repay it.

A flat 12.5% on profits (minimum CHF 1,800), reduced in practice by the notional interest deduction on equity. Nothing is withheld on dividends, interest or royalties leaving. VAT follows the Swiss system at 8.1%, Europe's lowest. Qualifying private-asset structures (PVS) pay the minimum only. We model your effective rate before you commit.

AG (CHF 50k): the operating and holding standard, shares and governance the world recognises. GmbH (CHF 30k): the smaller sibling. Anstalt: the uniquely Liechtenstein «establishment», flexible for holding and family purposes. Stiftung: the foundation, the crown jewel for succession and wealth, with a century of case law. The case picks the form, and we match them on the first call.

One entity with both keys: EEA membership passports services and capital across the single market (financial licences included), while the customs and currency union makes Switzerland the home market with the franc as the working currency. No other jurisdiction holds both - it is the principality's structural moat.

The TVTG (2020), the first comprehensive token law in Europe: it defines token rights, custody and transfers with legal certainty and registers token-service providers with the FMA. MiCA arrived years later; the pioneers who built under TVTG largely stayed. For serious token ventures, Vaduz remains a first-tier home, and we run the FMA process.

No, and its value today depends on that. The principality exchanges information under AEOI, registers beneficial owners, and its banks run some of the strictest KYC in Europe. What survived the cleanup is better: legal certainty, the 0% exit, the vehicle toolkit and a AAA flag every counterparty accepts. Structures are built for the transparent world.

Very, by design: LGT, LLB and VP Bank are private banks first - they want to understand the people, the source of wealth and the purpose before opening anything. A well-prepared file with real substance opens doors; a thin one doesn't, at any price. We build the file to their standard before the first meeting.

Switzerland offers the same franc at cantonal rates with a vastly bigger economy, but no EEA passport and a 35% reclaimable withholding. Luxembourg runs the EU's fund machine at higher rates. Liechtenstein wins where the case needs the 0% exit, the foundation toolkit, TVTG, or both markets at once. Often the answer is a pair, one on each side of the Rhine.

Plan two to four weeks: the KYC and structuring file first (one to two weeks, built properly once), capital and register inside a week after that, then banking around one prepared meeting. Foundations and FMA-licensed projects run their own longer tracks, which we calendar from day one.