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Tax guides for B-permit holders
What withholding tax does not explain: deductions, procedure, deadlines and pitfalls, in plain language.
- Withholding tax or ordinary taxation: what really changesTwo mechanisms for the same tax. Who levies it, when, on what basis, and what switching to ordinary taxation changes for your cash flow.Updated 2026-08-14
- New to Switzerland: what awaits you on the tax sideB permit, deduction from salary, an incomplete first year, automatic switch: how Swiss tax works for someone who has just arrived.Updated 2026-08-17
- B permit deductions: what withholding tax does not give backTravel costs, meals, pillar 3a, childcare: the deductions the withholding tariff ignores, with the 2026 federal ceilings and the steps to follow.Updated 2026-08-13
- Deductible professional expenses, item by itemCommuting, meals, training, tools: what really is deductible, the federal ceilings in force, and when the flat rate beats actual expenses.Updated 2026-08-17
- Pillar 3a when you are taxed at sourcePaying into pillar 3a does not reduce withholding at source. Federal ceilings, the 31 December deadline, retroactive buy-backs since 2026 and withdrawal traps.Updated 2026-08-17
- Subsequent ordinary taxation, explained in fullWho may request the TOU, who is obliged to, until when, and why the decision is irreversible. The reference guide for B permit holders.Updated 2026-08-14
- When ordinary taxation costs you moneyThe TOU request cannot be withdrawn and commits the following years. Wealth, foreign income, an expensive municipality: the profiles that lose money.Updated 2026-08-17
- Reading your salary certificate, figure by figureThe Lohnausweis explained box by box: where to find the net salary, the withholding tax, and the only two figures needed to estimate your savings.Updated 2026-08-14
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The guides apply to the whole of Switzerland. Tax scales, deductions and the filing deadline, however, change from one canton to another.
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