Urban Broger
Attorney-at-Law and Notary, MLaw
Swiss Certified Tax Expert, EMBA HSG / Partner
«Integrating law and taxes: Turning strategy into real success.»
Legal work
Urban Broger advises companies, investors and private individuals on Swiss and international tax law. He specialises in complex tax issues, particularly transfer pricing, reorganisations and tax disputes. His advice is informed by his extensive experience in the judiciary and industry.
Education
Executive MBA in General Management, University of St. Gallen
Certified Tax Expert
Admitted to the St. Gallen bar
Master of Law, University of Freiburg (magna cum laude)
Professional background
Tax expert and Deputy Head (from 2017) of the Group Tax Department at Helvetia Insurance, based in St. Gallen
Member and, from 2017, Chair of the VAT Working Group of the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA)
Attorney-at-Law and tax expert, Lenz & Staehelin, Zurich
Editor (part-time) at the Journal of Swiss and International
Tax Law (zsis)
Clerk at the Federal Administrative Court, Division I, Chamber 2 (formerly the Federal Tax Appeals Commission), Bern; from 2012, St. Gallen
Legal intership with Grand & Nisple, St. Gallen
Foundation board mandates
Secretary of the St. Gallen Cantonal Winkelried Foundation (winkelried-sg.ch)
Publications
VAT exemption in the insurance sector, in: Zweifel/Beusch/Glauser/Robinson (eds.), Commentary on Swiss Tax Law, Book on Value Added Tax, 2.A., Basel 2025, with Damian Erni
Developments regarding the VAT exemption in the insurance sector, in: FStR 2022/2, 154 ff., with Harun Can
The procedural status of the party liable for recourse in relation to withholding tax, in: IFF Forum for Tax Law (FStR) 2014/3, 273 ff., with Stephan Brandner
The binding effect of cantonal tax rulings on federal direct tax, comments on the Federal Supreme Court judgment 2C_708/2011 of October, 5 2012, in: Der Schweizer Treuhänder (ST) 2013, 605 ff., with Lukas Aebi
Procedures in cases of intercantonal double taxation, in: Zweifel/Beusch/Mäusli-Allenspach (eds.), Commentary on Swiss Tax Law, Intercantonal Tax Law, 1.A. , Basel 2011, with Prof. Dr Michael Beusch