Key legal question
Whether the management fees paid by the Swiss company to the director were subject to Swiss social insurance contributions as salary from employment.
Extracted holding
Yes. The fees were treated as remuneration to a board member/organ of the company and therefore as earned income from dependent employment.
Extracted reasoning
Payments by an AG to a board member are presumed to be salary; the appellants failed to rebut that presumption. The activity was not marginal, and the designation 'management fees' supported the conclusion that the payments were compensation for an organ function rather than for an independent mandate.