Hi All ,
In filling in the income part of the taxform wich relates to income in switzerland .

Does one have to include Rental Income from a holiday property in valaise or is it only earned income as if working in switzerland,as i undes
rstyand they base the tax on a assumed rental income of 3k.

Hope someone can come back with a definnete answer to this

Cheers

Real rental income is taxable income and must be declared.

The assumed rental income is when the property is self occupied or there is no real income.

All income worldwide (rental, wages, salary, interest, dividends, lottery winnings, gambling winnings, earnings from hobbies, - everything), regardless of income type, must be declared

With regards to income in Switzerland, all Swiss income of any and every type must be declared.

Hi, Has anyone else on this site been asked to do both a UK and ZUR tax return? If so, do you have any advice on whether to do them together vs. seperately and also whether to use an accountant?

Quick question : If one has property in Germany , by declaring the rental income in Switzerland is one no longer required to declare same in Germany ?
thanks

You only pay the tax once - Germany or Switzerland. I don't know about German taxes, couldn't you write the income against your German tax allowance. However, either way it's part of your assets and should be declared in Switzerland and will be subject to a very mild wealth tax...

Thank you very much ! To answer your question I believe as I live outside Germany I receive absolutely zero tax allowance...

The German tax authorities will require you to lodge a tax return with your income details as earnt in Germany

The Swiss tax authorities will require you to lodge a tax return with your income details as earnt in the entire world. Because you reside here.

Due to the double tax agreement between Switzerland and Germany, the tax paid in Germany can be offset against your Swiss tax, so the net result is you only pay once.

BUT: you must file the tax return in Germany for your Germany income. Otherwise, the German authorities may think you are practising tax avoidance, and recently we have seen what the German tax authorities attitude to tax avoidance is like...

It's that time of year again, so I'm resurrecting one of the most useful threads ever posted on EF.


I've never had a vehicle before, so this hasn't been an issue, but what exactly do I do here? More to the point - I'm leasing since August, so I don't actually own it yet. Do I still need to fill this in? It seems that this is likely to be an asset tax of some sort, and if it's leased I'd think I don't need to pay anything on it... but since I'm a good little wannabe-Swiss, I want to make sure I do it right.

Edit for clarity: there are four fields on line 30.4. The 2nd and 3rd are obvious - but is the first the make/model of the vehicle? What's the 4th?

To answer my own question, I read the handbook that comes with your paper tax details. According to that, "Nicht deklariert werden müssen geleaste Fahrzeuge." So you don't declare leased vehicles.

Do Familienzulage payments from the Arbeitlosenkasse go on line 3.4, and the Taggelder on line 3.3. or should the Steuerbarer Betrag go on line 3.3?

Hello

I checked this thread and there was no mention of the below.

1. I am in a rented house.Can i claim the Hausrat Premium under any headings?
2. Is the Pauschal of 700 CHF allowed for travel irrespective of whether you own a Fahrrad or Kleinmotorrad ( 1.2 under Berufauslagen)?

Appreciate your inputs.

ref to 30.4 - they decide the car value.....

how, they dont know the condition or the KMS, you can have a complete shitheap with a billion kms or a mint example.

values are wildly different

Yes it is. Spouse's name appeared on the 2010 Steuererklärung.

I put that information onto the 2010 tax return anyway. I haven't had the final bill yet, but I didn't get any telephone calls or letters in grey envelopes so I assume they bought it.

Well yes it is! In Zürich anyway. Not completed it yet, but so far it appears to work like PrivateTax, only online. You still have to print stuff out at the end and send it by mail though. So uploading signed PDFs isn't an option yet.

You need your dead tree form in order to register to set up an account because there is an Online-Zugangscode on it. Then you have to activate either SMS code security, else use your Suisse ID. Finally, a use for a Swiss ID.