Silly of me, but, um..
Is a used car declarable as an asset? I get the impression that a new car definitely is, with a kanton dependent depreciation per year. What is the case with a 2007 automobile? Declare at purchase price, depreciate by period of personal use?

Edit: to clarify, for personal use, no business purpose, leasing, or other complexities involved.

Appreciate your input,
//ata

Please declare the canton where you are resident.

It's an asset, in Bern and Fribourg you state the car, year you bought it and how much you paid for it.

Thanks.
This would be Basel-Stadt. I'm combing http://www.steuerverwaltung.bs.ch/ now, but limiting the matches in their search would require tax vocabulary beyond Fahrzeug.

Cheers,
//ata

It's declared as an asset in Neuchâtel too. There is a place on the online tax declaration form where you have to declare it and a handy little tool that calculates the value you have to declare based on the make, model and age of the car.

TI too.

Tom

In the Basel Stadt tax guide . . .
http://www.steuerverwaltung.bs.ch/15...wegleitung.pdf
You'll find on page 39 . . .

Steuerfrei sind der Hausrat und die persönlichen Gebrauchsgegenstände (einschliesslich Motorfahrzeuge
für den täglichen Gebrauch). Ansprüche gegenüber Einrichtungen der beruflichen Vorsorge
(Pensionskasse) oder Einrichtungen der gebundenen Selbstvorsorge (Säule 3a) sind bis zur
Fälligkeit der Leistungen ebenfalls steuerfrei.

That means that cars for your daily use are not relevant for the tax form.

A-ha, so it's one of the kanton specific twists.
I hadn't seen a place for a car in the BalTax application, only generic assets, and was faintly aware of such existing in other areas, which is what started bothering me.

Once again, thank you all!
//ata

In ZH you depreciate 40% of cost first year & 10 % of residual value a year after that.