Sustainable Tax incentives and financing

With urgent action needed to preserve a healthy biosphere, society and economy, businesses are facing an ever-increasing pressure to transform. EY Sustainability Tax can help you turn ambitions into action, helping you navigate new requirements and act towards regulatory compliance and beyond

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The team

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Nathan Richards

Partner, Operating Model Effectiveness and Transfer Pricing, Europe West Sustainability Tax and Law Leader

Photographic portrait of Jeroen Truin

Partner, Operating Model Effectiveness and Swiss Sustainability Tax and Law Leader | EY Switzerland

Photographic portrait of Ashish Sinha

Partner, Global Trade and Operating Model Effectiveness, Ernst & Young AG

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What EY can do for you

On your sustainability journey, our EY Sustainability Tax team can help you reach your goals by transforming your operating model to accelerate transition, decarbonize your supply chains, and integrate robust risk-based sustainability due diligence practices. To support this, we help you stay aware of policy developments and their impact and assist with securing incentives and funding and complying with sustainability reporting and due diligence regulations. EY team's insight creates a bird’s eye view of your sustainability strategy, supporting and flexing across your enterprise. This insight allows us to bring in key players at vital stages, sharing our technical and market experience related to the transactional flows, processes, governance and IT challenges you face during your sustainability journey.

EY's services include:

o   Overall sustainability tax & regulatory impact assessment:
Staying updated on the rapidly evolving sustainability taxes and regulations is challenging for many companies. We help by mapping relevant legislations that are coming into effect and the respective impacts across processes, governance and IT systems. In addition, tools like the Green Tax Tracker (GTT) assist in identifying relevant sustainability legislations.

o   Carbon pricing
We help you understand the impacts of different carbon pricing instruments at Swiss, EU and international levels (such as Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and carbon taxes). We help you identify impacted products and supply flows, assess the related financial and operational impacts, and build your own transformation roadmap.

o   Supply chain due diligence and traceability:
Current or upcoming legislations such as EU Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR), the EU Forced Labour Regulation (EUFLR), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) or the CH CO964 emphasize ecological and social aspects of the supply chain. They require companies to ensure internal and external traceability, collect new data points and implement a risk assessment and mitigation framework. We assist companies throughout their end-to-end implementation journey, from initial impact assessment until implementation across processes, governance and IT systems. This typically includes transactional flow mapping, data gap assessments, process and RACI design, functional and technical design, IT vendor selection and implementation support.

o   Plastic and packaging tax and EPR compliance and impact assessment
We help you understand plastic packaging and extended producer responsibility (EPR) risks and opportunities, adapt to new compliance regulations and develop your packaging and EPR strategy.

o   Lifestyle taxes
There’s a growing trend for measures that target healthy consumption patterns through excise taxes, adjusted VAT rates as well as labeling and advertising regulations on certain products or ingredients (e.g., sugar). We can help you uncover the “hidden costs” of these new measures across countries and identify sustainable responses through our holistic assessment.
o Tax function transformation
The changing environmental tax landscape and increased transparency requirements are impacting tax functions and elevating their role within companies. Policies, processes and responsibilities must be reviewed and aligned with the new obligations, with standardized processes embedded throughout your organization. We help you assess the impact on your tax function, mitigate risks and explore opportunities.
o Sustainable location assessment
We help you unlock strategic and sustainable investment projects through our range of location analysis, financial and incentive services. Our sustainable location assessment module facilitates location decision and documentation and considers key elements including carbon footprint and ESG strategy.

o Finding the matching grant & tax incentives program for your new project
Many jurisdictions offer substantial funding for projects aligned with ESG goals. We can identify potential grant and tax incentive programs for you through thorough screening. After conducting an eligibility assessment, we will provide detailed information on the most relevant programs to help you decide on the next steps. We can also support you with the application process for grants and tax incentives and assist in finding partners for a potential consortium.
o Disclosing taxes for sustainability purposes:
Tax is key to ESG reporting as most of the mandatory and voluntary frameworks require tax disclosures (e.g. CSRD, GRI). We make the complex ESG tax reporting landscape simpler, assess your tax control framework (tax strategy, processes and controls in place) and help you develop a strategy for ESG tax reporting that considers risks and opportunities. Our professionals help you align ESG tax reporting and tax planning, assist you with ESG tax disclosures and assess the tax impact on ESG ratings.

o Leveraging data to substantiate green claims:
Turning data into credible environmental claims involves analyzing the information to identify key sustainability metrics and achievements which align with recognized standards. By clearly and transparently communicating these metrics throughout their market presence, companies can substantiate their claims, ensure compliance and build trust with stakeholders while avoiding greenwashing. We assist companies to strategically benefit from the different internal and external data sources (e.g. ESG data lake) to enable credible environmental claims.

We take special care to consider the impact on Swiss companies operating in the EU, as some regulations create unique conditions for non-established companies.

Together, we’ll make sustainability part of how you set up your customs and tax functions and how you operate your business and create long-term value for all stakeholders.

Explore the full breadth of our value-led sustainability and ESG services at EY Sustainability.

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The team

Nathan Richards

Partner, Operating Model Effectiveness and Transfer Pricing, Europe West Sustainability Tax and Law Leader

Designs and transforms to sustainable operating models. Green tax element evaluation and planning. BEPS-aligned operating model solutions. Transfer pricing planning and controversy management.

Zurich, Switzerland

Jeroen Truin

Partner, Operating Model Effectiveness and Swiss Sustainability Tax and Law Leader | EY Switzerland

Sustainability Tax & Law Leader turning complex regulation into clear, actionable operating models. Helping global businesses transform with confidence.

Geneva, Lancy, Switzerland

Ashish Sinha

Partner, Global Trade and Operating Model Effectiveness, Ernst & Young AG

Avid traveler. Enjoys cooking. Multicultural personality. Supports use of sustainable technology.

Geneva, Lancy, Switzerland

Jonathan Baumeler

Director, Global Trade & Sustainability | EY Switzerland

Passionate about technology and innovation. Driving client success through trade automation and data-driven insights. Advocate for sustainability and preserving our natural heritage. Loves spending time in the mountains.

Zurich, Switzerland

Virginie Casals

Partner, Global Compliance and Reporting Leader | EY Switzerland

Provider of outsourced tax, accounting and payroll compliance services. Passionate about developing people and teaming across borders and cultures. Super-mum of one daughter and keen horse rider.

Zurich, Switzerland

Rolf Geier

Partner, Global Compliance & Reporting in Financial Services | EY Switzerland

Enthusiastic about client service, being a team player, D&I with the ambition to leave a legacy behind. Passionate about his family, Burgundy, cooking, hunting, fly-fishing, traveling and sports.

Zurich, Switzerland

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