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Canton Glarus · tax year 2025

Your Glarus tax return, 2025

What Glarus charges on your salary, what each of its 3 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.

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Communes
3Municipal rates from 56% to 63%
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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

Glarus · capital, 56%

CHF 12’674

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’660 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’309

Glarus Süd · highest rate, 63%

CHF 13’337

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’660 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’972 · CHF 663 more than Glarus

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Estimated income tax in each commune

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All 3 communes by municipal rate

Each dot is a commune. Glarus is marked.

60%Glarus 56%

Lowest: Glarus 56%Highest: Glarus Süd 63%

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 Glarus and Glarus Süd 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 Glarus 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

    GlarusCHF 3’100
    FederalCHF 1’800

    Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 4’650

    Plus CHF 1’000 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in Glarus

  • Insurance premiums, couple

    GlarusCHF 6’200
    FederalCHF 3’700

    With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 9’300

    Plus CHF 1’000 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in Glarus

  • Third-party childcare

    GlarusCHF 25’800
    FederalCHF 25’800

    Per child under 14. Meals and board do not count.

    Same as federal

  • Commuting

    GlarusNo limit
    FederalCHF 3’300
    No cantonal limit

  • Second-earner deduction

    Glarusup to CHF 10’300
    Federalup to CHF 14’100

    Glarus allows 10% of the lower net earned income, at least CHF 3’600 and at most this amount.

    Lower in Glarus

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

Deduction limits: Kanton Glarus: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziff. 12 (Versicherungsprämien und Zinsen von Sparkapitalien), PDF p.19; Art. 31 Abs. 1 Ziff. 7 StG (ESTV Kantonsblatt Glarus, p.10). www.gl.ch

Deduction limits: Kanton Glarus: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziff. 13.4 (Abzug für Kinderdrittbetreuung), PDF p.20; Art. 31 Abs. 1 Ziff. 10 StG (ESTV Kantonsblatt Glarus, p.10). www.gl.ch

Deduction limits: Kanton Glarus: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Berufsauslagen Ziff. 2 (Fahrkosten, 'Höchstbetrag beim Bund CHF 3300'), PDF p.15; Art. 26 Abs. 1 Ziff. 1 StG und Art. 4 BKV (ESTV Kantonsblatt Glarus, p.7). www.gl.ch

Deduction limits: Kanton Glarus: Art. 31 Abs. 2 StG (Sonderabzug bei Erwerbstätigkeit beider Ehegatten), ESTV Kantonsblatt Glarus p.11; Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziff. 14, PDF p.22. www.estv2.admin.ch

Deadline: Kanton Glarus: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Allgemeine Hinweise (Frist: aufgedrucktes Datum, PDF p.3; Fristverlängerung bis 31. Dezember 2026, PDF p.5) und Kanton Glarus, 'Fristverlängerungen für natürliche Personen' (Gebühr CHF 30 ab 31.12.). Checked 2026-09-20

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