Key legal question
Whether the cancellation of the appellant’s self-employed AHV contribution registration and the recovery of paid provisional contributions for 2014-2016 were lawful.
Extracted holding
The cancellation was lawful because the appellant had moved his residence and business abroad and did not prove any continuing self-employed activity in Switzerland from 2014 onward.
Extracted reasoning
The court relied on the respondent’s investigations, the appellant’s inconsistent statements, his failure to submit accounting and tax documents, and the fact that after the move he no longer had a Swiss residence or business seat; thus the respondent was no longer the competent collection office.