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Old 14.12.2008, 17:08
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Re: Reducing your Quellensteuer, (PAYE), impôt à la source

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3rd Pillar:- all payments to the 3rd pillar are free of tax irrespective of whether you pay quellensteuer or not. That is CHF 6365 on which you do not need to pay tax...

Purchases in the 2nd pillar or company pension scheme:- on your company pension statement which you receive every year there is at the bottom how much you are allowed to purchase voluntarily on top of what you have contributed so far. This is also tax free.
Another question:

In terms of tax exemption, how do the voluntary contributions into the 2nd pillar and 3a account co-exist?

Here is our case: my husband made a voluntary 2nd pillar contribution to the Bern Pensionkasse, after having filled out a survey, where one of the questions was whether he has a 3a Account. He doesn't yet. He has already received "Bescheinigung über Vorsorgebeiträge" (Certificate about Pension Contributions), which I assume should be filed together with Quellensteuerkorrektur. The accompanying letter to the Bescheinigung states that "Eine Einschränkung nach Artikel 79 b BVG und den Artikeln 60a und 60b BW2 liegt nicht vor."

Now, article 60a says:
"Der Höchstbetrag der Einkaufssumme reduziert sich um ein Guthaben in der Säule 3a, soweit es die aufgezinste Summe der jährlichen gemäss Artikel 7 Absatz 1 Buchstabe a der Verordnung vom 13. November 19851 über die steuerliche Abzugsberechtigung für Beiträge an anerkannte Vorsorgeformen vom Einkommen höchstens abziehbaren Beiträge ab vollendetem 24. Altersjahr der versicherten Person übersteigt. Bei der Aufzinsung kommen die jeweils gültigen BVG-Mindestzinssätze zur Anwendung."

I can't quite make sense of it. Does this mean that if a person has a 3a Account, then part of his/her buying into the 2nd pillar will NOT be tax-deductible? or does this mean that if somebody has a 3rd pillar account, the amount of allowed purchase into the 2nd pillar will be less?

What if my husband opens up a 3a Account now, in December 2008, after having made a purchase into the 2nd pillar? Will that influence the tax-deductibility of either 2nd pillar voluntary contribution or 3a pillar for the year 2008?

Thanks in advance!
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