Lump-sum heavy vehicle charge (PSVA)

In Switzerland, a performance-related heavy vehicle charge is payable for transport motor vehicles and trailers with a total weight of over 3.5 tonnes each.

A licence from the Federal Office of Transport (FOT) is necessary for scheduled services.

Vehicle holders are entitled to an annual charge refund for days when their vehicle operates solely abroad. Submit your application with trip controls within one year after the charge period ends. Amounts below 50 CHF are not refunded.

Trips leading up to and after UCT are those carried out by road vehicles with transport units (containers, swap bodies, trailers) between the point of loading/unloading and a transhipment station or the Rhine port.

You are entitled to a partial PSVA refund for vehicles subject to the PSVA that are used to transport raw timber (roundwood, wood for energy and industrial use, residual wood).

Motor vehicles that are used by fun fairs and circuses exclusively to transport fun fair or circus equipment are entitled to a reduced-rate lump-sum assessment.

A lump-sum charge is levied for provisionally registered vehicles that are intended for exportation.

The most important information on the lump-sum heavy vehicle charge for foreign vehicles is summarised in fact sheet form 15.94.