Can anyone tell me if this sounds right please.....I just got my first month pay slip for December last year. I work in Aigle and live in Lausanne and have deductions of Cotisation AVS of 5.05%, Cotisation chomage of 1%, Cotisations LPP of 5.6% and Impot source of 22%.....seems like a lot in a country I thought was supposed to be low tax given they aren't paying for the Iraq war etc?

All the figures (AVS, pension and unemployment insurance) sound right. For determining your tax you can use the website

http://www.estv.admin.ch/e/dienstlei...uerrechner.htm

Best,
Andy

If your brutto salary is 13'000 CHF, then I would say it is correct, yes.

Thank you, much appreciated

Is 22% tax not low enough?

Just as a point you are at 22% on a single person, no children with church tax rate but I cannot find any tax at source figures for canton vaud that are without church tax - I Assume at least the other two points single 0 children are correct. This church tax makes about 1.5% of difference... Also note that with 13K per month you will need to complete a tax return which will reduce your tax burden somewhat if you start planning for what you can claim now, 3rd pillar, travel, etc

Richard, is there a list of such deductibles somewhere on line (in English or French if poss)? If not, could you give us a quickie list of the main ones - I understand about the 3rd pillar, but for example what travel can you allow for..?

And please can you let me know when the tax years run from - is it calendar years, or something random like April to April?

Apologies if this takes the thread off topic for employment; please move to Finance etc if that's more appropriate.

Thanks

kodokan

Oooooh - I've got 'Thanks' and 'Groan' buttons now! Great, now I can be officially grateful rather than just thinking it.

kodokan