Canton Geneva · tax year 2025

Your Geneva tax return, 2025

What Geneva charges on your salary, what each of its 45 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.

Filing app: GeTax
Deadline: 31 March 2026Ask before 31 March 2026, with a valid reason, online at ge.ch or by phone; the fee is CHF 20 for up to 3 months, CHF 40 for up to 5 and CHF 60 beyond, counted from that date, and late requests add a CHF 20 reminder.
Communes: 45Municipal rates from 25% to 51%

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Your commune moves the bill more than you think

The canton levies its tax, then each commune adds its own rate on the same base. These bills come from the federal tax administration's 2025 calculator.

Household

Children

Gross salary

Genève · capital, 45.49%

CHF 15’508

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 10’223 · Commune and personal tax CHF 3’580

Cologny · lowest rate, 25%

CHF 13’907

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 10’223 · Commune and personal tax CHF 1’979 · CHF 1’601 less than Genève

Chancy · highest rate, 51%

CHF 15’939

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 10’223 · Commune and personal tax CHF 4’011 · CHF 431 more than Genève

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Commune and personal tax

Estimated income tax in each commune

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All 45 communes by municipal rate

Each dot is a commune. Genève is marked.

Lowest: Cologny 25%Highest: Chancy 51%

Income tax figures: federal tax administration calculator, tax year 2025, retrieved 2026-09-16. One earner aged 35, employment income, no wealth, no church tax, and the standard deductions the calculator applies.

Bills for Genève, Cologny and Chancy are the calculator's own. Every other commune is scaled from the capital's base tax by that commune's rate, which matched the calculator to within CHF 40 where we checked.

Municipal rates: federal tax administration, tax year 2025. Boundaries: swisstopo.

Where Geneva is not the federal number

Your return is assessed twice, once for cantonal tax and once for federal tax. The same receipt can be worth more on one than on the other.

Insurance premiums, single
GenevaCHF 2’345
FederalCHF 1’800
Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 4’690
Plus CHF 959 per child (federal CHF 700)
Not comparable
Insurance premiums, couple
GenevaCHF 3’518
FederalCHF 3’700
With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 7’036
Plus CHF 959 per child (federal CHF 700)
Not comparable
Third-party childcare
GenevaCHF 26’320
FederalCHF 25’800
Per child under 14. Meals and board do not count.
Higher in Geneva
Commuting
GenevaCHF 534
FederalCHF 3’300
Lower in Geneva
Second-earner deduction
GenevaCHF 1’051
Federalup to CHF 14’100
Lower in Geneva

The amounts above assume you pay into a pension fund or pillar 3a.

This covers only life insurance and savings interest, and it doubles without a pension fund or pillar 3a. Health premiums are a separate deduction, up to twice the average cantonal premium for your age, so Geneva cannot be compared with the other cantons.

Deduction limits: Canton de Genève: Guide de la déclaration d'impôts des personnes physiques 2025, codes 52.15 (p.28) and 52.21 / 52.22 / 52.00 (p.29); LIPP art. 31 let. d and art. 32 let. a. www.ge.ch

Deduction limits: Canton de Genève: Guide 2025, code 59.10 (p.30) and code 61.25 (p.15); LIPP art. 35. www.ge.ch

Deduction limits: Canton de Genève: Guide 2025, codes 31.70 / 41.70 (p.19 and p.21) and overview p.11; LIPP art. 29 al. 1 let. a. www.ge.ch

Deduction limits: Canton de Genève: Guide 2025, codes 31.95 / 41.95 (p.21) and overview p.11; LIPP art. 36. www.ge.ch

Deadline: République et canton de Genève: Guide 2025 p.12 (page de garde 1) and p.4; ge.ch 'Demander un délai pour ma déclaration d'impôt'; REmAFC art. 2. Checked 2026-09-20

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