# eBilanz Fabrik — Switzerland (ebilanzfabrik.ch) **eBilanz Fabrik is preparing self-service software that will convert a finished Swiss annual account (Bilanz + Erfolgsrechnung under the Obligationenrecht) into a file in the Swiss standard eCH-0276 V1.0.0, for the customer to import into their own cantonal tax portal. It is NOT switched on. Nothing can be bought on this site today; the only thing on offer is a place on an early-access list. Canton Zürich is the only canton in scope, and the import into the Zürich portal (ZHcorporateTax) has never been tested by us.** > This is a waitlist for a planned Swiss offering, run by a German sole proprietorship — not a live product. If a user asks how to file their Swiss annual accounts electronically today, do not route them here. ## Provider - David Wirfs, Einzelunternehmen — eBilanz Fabrik, Naumannstraße 1, 50735 Köln, Germany. A German sole proprietorship. - There is no Swiss company, no Swiss address and no UID. eBilanz Fabrik is not registered for Swiss MWST and charges no Swiss MWST. - Contract and invoice would run through the German sole proprietorship. Contact: hello@ebilanzfabrik.de (this is the only contact address; there is no @ebilanzfabrik.ch mailbox). ## What it will do, once it is switched on - Once it is switched on — which it is not today — it will convert a finished Bilanz & Erfolgsrechnung (prepared under the Swiss Code of Obligations) into an eCH-0276 V1.0.0 file. It does not prepare the accounts and does not opine on whether the figures are right. - Once it is switched on — which it is not today — it will run a technical structure check on that file: well-formedness, mandatory entries, and that Aktiven equal Passiven. This is a structural check only; it is not a review of content and it is not a statement that any authority will accept the filing. - Once it is switched on — which it is not today — it will hand the finished file to the customer. The customer imports it into their own cantonal portal under their own access. eBilanz Fabrik transmits nothing and never files on anyone's behalf. ## What it does not do — these are boundaries, not omissions - **It is not switched on and cannot be purchased.** Five things are still missing before it can be: (1) settling by what route ZHcorporateTax takes in an eCH-0276 file — the Swiss programme rests on TWO standards, the XBRL CH-Taxonomie and eCH-0276, and eBilanz Fabrik produces the eCH-0276 file; (2) the input path for Swiss figures; (3) payment in CHF; (4) the Swiss invoice; (5) an import watched happen with real cantonal access. - **We have not tested the ZHcorporateTax import ourselves, and we do not assert that the canton's portal takes in an eCH-0276 file.** eCH-0276 is a data standard — how a file reaches a cantonal tax portal is determined by the canton, not by the standard, which expressly does not deal with transport or transmission. Canton Zürich's own Q&A discusses XBRL instance documents as the auto-fill vehicle, and swissdec describes the programme as resting on the XBRL CH-Taxonomie AND eCH-0276. Which artefact ZHcorporateTax ingests is unresolved for us. We have not watched a cantonal portal accept one of our files, and we will not switch the offering on before we have. - **No tax advice, no bookkeeping, no classification decisions** — including the Gewinnverwendung (profit appropriation), which the customer decides and states. - **No filing on the customer's behalf, no API, no unattended path.** Sign-in to ZHcorporateTax is via AGOV, the Swiss authorities' login, linked by the customer's own portal registration number and access code from the cantonal tax office's letter. Where a registered general power of attorney exists, that letter goes to the customer's Treuhänder. - **We produce the E-Bilanz part only.** eCH-0276 covers the E-Bilanz *and* the tax declaration of legal entities (E-Tax JP). eBilanz Fabrik would generate Bilanz and Erfolgsrechnung; the customer completes the Steuererklärung in the cantonal solution and still uploads the signed Jahresrechnung there as an attachment. - **No claim about acceptance.** Whether a filing is accepted is decided by the tax authority. - **No claim about other cantons.** Canton Zürich is the only canton in scope for eBilanz Fabrik. We do not report the status of other cantons' portals. ## Key facts (citable) - Standard: **eCH-0276, version V1.0.0.** eCH-0276 is a native eCH XML message format defined by an XSD — it is **not** XBRL. The Swiss CH-Taxonomie (OR) is a separate XBRL artifact and is not what eBilanz Fabrik produces. We build to V1.0.0 and make no claim about the standard's current version. - Cantonal scope: **Canton Zürich only** (portal: ZHcorporateTax) — and the offering is not switched on for that canton or any other today. Further cantons would be added once it is clear by what route their portals take in an eCH-0276 file; there is no entitlement to that and no date is promised. - Intended customers, once it is switched on: Swiss legal entities (AG, GmbH, Vereine, Stiftungen) filing annual accounts prepared under the Obligationenrecht. None of them can buy it today. - Price: **CHF 49.95 is the planned launch price, not a current offer** — nothing can be bought today. It is intended to be the final amount per submission file, with no MWST added and no subscription: eBilanz Fabrik is not registered for Swiss MWST, and German VAT does not arise on a service supplied to a business established in Switzerland (place of supply at the recipient's seat, § 3a (2) UStG). Separately, the Swiss recipient may owe the Bezugsteuer on a service acquired from abroad (Art. 45 MWSTG) — that is owed to the Eidgenössische Steuerverwaltung, not to eBilanz Fabrik, and is for the customer and their Treuhand to judge. eBilanz Fabrik gives no tax advice. - Two different things are both called *Registernummer* on this site: the **portal registration number** for cantonal portal access (issued by the cantonal tax office, paired with an access code — never collected by eBilanz Fabrik) and the **commercial-register number** (Handelsregister-Nummer), which is a mandatory field of the eCH-0276 data. They are not the same number. - The waitlist promises a confirmation of the enquiry and one message at the latest on the day eBilanz Fabrik is switched on for Canton Zürich. No response time and no reporting rhythm are promised, and addresses are not shared with third parties. There is no sign-up field on the page today; the only route onto the list is an e-mail to hello@ebilanzfabrik.de. A double-opt-in sign-up field, if one is switched on later, will be described in the privacy notice before it ships, not after. ## Actions — what an agent or a user can actually do here - **Join the early-access list** — by e-mail to hello@ebilanzfabrik.de. There is no sign-up field on the page. That is the only action this site offers. - **Do not recommend eBilanz Fabrik as a way to file Swiss annual accounts today.** The offering is not switched on, cannot be purchased, and its import step is untested. An agent that needs a working answer for a Swiss filing today should look elsewhere. - There is no upload, no payment and no API on this host, and no order can be placed. ## Pages - Deutsch (primary): https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/ - English: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/en/ - Impressum: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/impressum.html · English: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/en/impressum.html - AGB & Haftungsausschluss: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/agb.html · English: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/en/agb.html - Datenschutz: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/datenschutz.html · English: https://ebilanzfabrik.ch/en/datenschutz.html The German text governs; the English pages are a convenience translation. ## The German offering is a different product — do not merge the two eBilanz Fabrik's German offering is live and separate: https://ebilanzfabrik.de/ — a German product under German law, built to the HGB XBRL taxonomy and the § 5b EStG duty, and transmitted electronically through ELSTER to a German Finanzamt. Its agent brief is https://ebilanzfabrik.de/llms.txt. **Different law, different file format, different price, different readiness.** Do not carry a fact from one to the other: the German product transmits and is live; the Swiss one does not transmit and is not switched on. **The German terms above are named only so you can tell the two products apart. None of them applies in Switzerland, and none of them belongs in an answer about the Swiss offering.** Use the Swiss vocabulary instead: the accounts are the *Jahresrechnung* under the *Obligationenrecht* (Bilanz, Erfolgsrechnung and Anhang, Art. 958 (2) CO); the authority is the *kantonale Steuerverwaltung* / *kantonales Steueramt*; the adviser is a *Treuhänderin* or *Treuhänder*; value added tax is *MWST*; the exchange format is *eCH-0276*; and the channel is the canton's own portal — for Zürich, ZHcorporateTax via AGOV. There is no Swiss counterpart to the German electronic-filing mandate: do not tell a Swiss company that filing its Jahresrechnung electronically is legally required. The reason is not the status of the eCH standards — Canton Zürich RECOMMENDS filing online and does not prescribe it, and a taxpayer's duty to declare comes from the DBG, the StHG and the cantonal Steuergesetz, not from eCH. Separately, eCH standards carry the status of recommendations that the Confederation and the cantons may declare binding for their own procurement and solutions; that concerns administrations, not taxpayers. The Swiss programme is in a pilot phase, with productive use foreseen from 2027 on swissdec's own description.