Christina Rinne (Zurich)

Christina Rinne is a German tax expert and lawyer and has been practicing in Switzerland since 2001. She specializes in advising and representing in matters of Swiss and European VAT law, customs and tax law and foreign trade law.

Christina advises clients on all aspects of indirect tax law and represents them in dealings with the tax authorities and before the administrative courts, including making their operations more VAT-efficient and improving cash-flow, structuring their cross-border activities, M&A and finance, and real estate transactions, dealing with indirect tax disputes and negotiating rulings with the relevant tax authorities, and keeping up with changes in indirect tax legislation and related risks and opportunities. Additionally, she focuses on advising customs issues, in particular, connected with import VAT.

In her previous work, she has accompanied globally active plant construction companies and e-commerce companies that wanted to tap into Switzerland as a sales market.