Costante Ghielmetti

Partner, Certified Tax Expert

'If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.' – Antoine de Saint Exupéry

About

Costante Ghielmetti offers advice on national and international tax law to legal entities and individuals. His activities extend in particular to tax assistance in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, tax litigation and advice in the context of the generational transfer of a family business.

Contact

Tel. +41 58 200 31 00

Fax +41 58 200 31 11

costante.ghielmetti@kellerhals-carrard.ch

Assistance

Cristina Ponzio

+41 58 200 31 79

cristina.ponzio@kellerhals-carrard.ch

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Languages

Italian
French
German
English

Expertise

Practice Areas

Taxes

Corporate and Business Law / M&A

Sectors

Industry and Trade

Experience

Career

Education

Further Activities

Since September 2021: Partner at Kellerhals Carrard Lugano SA, Lugano, Switzerland

2013–2021: Deputy director of the Taxation Division, Council of State, Canton of Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland

2008–2013: Deputy director at Interfida SA, Chiasso, Switzerland

2003–2008: Deputy director at Fidinam & Partners SA, Lugano, Switzerland

2002–2003: Tax manager at KPMG Fides, Zurich and Lugano, Switzerland

1993–2002: Acting as deputy section chef, Audit Division at the Federal Tax Administration

1986–1993: Employee at FIDES, Lugano, and then at Banca del Gottardo, Lugano

2000: Federally Certified Tax Expert

1997: Certified fiduciary AKAD, Zurich

1996: Federally Certified Financial Fiduciary

Swiss Foundations Forum, Lausanne

Lecturer in Tax Law at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI), Department of Business and Social Sciences, Tax Law Competence Center