IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen AG

About IFJ Institut für Jungunternehmen AG

IFJ is a Swiss startup-support institute that helps founders incorporate and run new businesses, with regional offices in St. Gallen, Schlieren, Lausanne and Lugano. It reports guiding thousands of founders each year and carrying out more than three thousand incorporations annually through an online service that includes a lawyer and notary. Alongside formation it offers courses, a business-plan tool, registered-office services, commercial register changes, trademark protection, accounting and payroll processing for young companies and business account set-up with a banking partner. A separate page explains the requirements for foreign founders, such as residence permits, a Swiss-resident officer and a domestic registered office. The site is offered in German, French, Italian and English, and incorporation prices are published openly for founders comparing providers.

Services

Online incorporation of sole proprietorships, general partnerships, LLCs and stock companies, including legal and notary work; automatic registrations for social insurance, VAT and the transparency register; capital-deposit and business-account opening with a banking partner; domiciliation in a startup space; changes to the commercial register and legal-form transformation; contribution-in-kind procedures; accounting and payroll processing; guidance for founders living abroad, including proof of activity for permits.

• ✓ Company formation: offered
• ✓ Accounting and bookkeeping: offered
• ✕ Tax compliance: not listed
• ✓ VAT: offered
• ✓ Payroll: offered
• ✕ Audit: not listed
• ✓ Bank account assistance: offered
• ✕ Residency and visas: not listed
• ✓ Corporate secretarial: offered
• ✓ Virtual office: offered

Published prices

• Incorporation of sole proprietorship or general partnership CHF 200
• Incorporation of LLC or Ltd CHF 500

As published by the firm. Prices change; the firm's quote is what counts.