Three gates — and not one of them is technical1'390 of 1'432 rules apply in every canton14 of 26 cantons accept third-party software — Zürich does not33'000 words of cantonal documentation · 0× eCH-0276Obwalden: four tax periods ahead890 → 892 elements, 88 type changes, same version string11 predictions — each dated, each with a falsifierThree gates — and not one of them is technical1'390 of 1'432 rules apply in every canton14 of 26 cantons accept third-party software — Zürich does not33'000 words of cantonal documentation · 0× eCH-0276Obwalden: four tax periods ahead890 → 892 elements, 88 type changes, same version string11 predictions — each dated, each with a falsifier

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Two standards, 26 cantons

Machine-readable annual accounts: we are in the thick of it. We follow what the cantons, the SSK and eCH publish, as it appears — 255 documents so far, each dated, each checkable. Out of that comes the map from a finished Jahresrechnung to an accepted submission: what already carries, what is still open, and how you can tell when it moves. New source, new version — we keep up.

Series · 14 parts

01The thesis — and how to refute itThe format is published. Three documented conditions decide the machine-readable Jahresrechnung today: a login, a contract, and an instruction that does not exist.02Two lanes, three artefacts — and why there are two formatsThe Kommunikationsmatrix has four rows, not three. XBRL can address exactly one recipient, eCH-0276 any number. What the swissdec schema records about two lanes and three artefacts.03Three gates, not oneA contract, a certificate, an identity. The Transmitter specification documents not one admission condition but three — independent of one another, each of them documented separately.All 14 parts

What this is about

Annual accounts are to reach the cantonal tax office in machine-readable form. The format for that is published. What we worked through is what today sits between a finished file and an accepted submission: 255 primary documents, every statement carrying its source and date.

Three things determine the route, and all three are on the record: a login issued to a natural person · a contractual framework its own custodian describes as still to be created · and an instruction that does not appear in some 33'000 words of cantonal documentation.

Guide

1The Jahresrechnung under the Code of ObligationsWhat the balance sheet, income statement and notes must contain, who has to prepare them, and how they reach the tax office today.2Who may file?Representation, mandate and access credentials: what § 11 of the Zürich ordinance permits, and what it deliberately does not.3Canton Zürich: what has changedZHcorporateTax since August 2025, some 97'000 legal entities — and the parts of the procedure still running on paper.4Checking a provider: what mattersFour questions any provider can be asked — ourselves included: tax secrecy, where data sits, retention, credentials.5Common questions on filing in ZürichIs it mandatory? What does the portal accept today? Can my Treuhand file for me, and how?6Glossary of termseCH-0276, XBRL, Deklarationslösung, Distributor, AGOV: 18 terms, each in plain language and precisely, with a named source.

Where we stand, and corrections

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