OK, so I got my tax forms from my employer and now I am wondering what to do (if anything). I have been tax at source and my brutto salary is higher than CHF 120K, yet my netto salary is lower than CHF 120K (Brutto Lohn vs. Netto Lohn). 2 questions:

1) which one do I take to determine if I get to file or not - the netto or the brutto figure?;

2) if I do have to file a tax return, which Kanton do I file in? I work in Zug and I used to live in Zug up till November but moved on 1 November to Zurich.

Many thanks for your responses!

london_girl

questions like this have been answered so many times here!

take a look through the http://www.englishforum.ch/tags/tax/ threads. Richard has some great advice.

what you received is not your tax forms. what you have is equivalent to your P60 in the UK/IRL. It will be needed to help fill in the tax forms you WILL receive in March or May depending if this is your first year in the system.

Your salary is >120kCHF means you WILL eventually get a set of forms in the mail.

I think you will have to submit your tax return in ZRH. I think they take where you live on the 31st Dec as your tax location. ZRH & ZUG will then fight amoung themselves to see who gets the tax you have already paid at source.

Play with this software: http://www.steueramt.zh.ch/html/steu...g/software.htm

in preperation for completing the forms. It is a great help in generating teh tax forms and also how much you should expect back, because of all the deductions you can make. Your travel expenses from ZUG to ZRH should al be tax deductable.

bill