Neuchâtel · capital, 65%
CHF 18’075
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 10’740 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’630
Canton Neuchâtel · tax year 2025
Your Neuchâtel tax return, 2025
What Neuchâtel charges on your salary, what each of its 24 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.
- Filing app
- Clic & Tax
- Deadline
- 20 February 2026Ask before 20 February 2026: free to 30 April, CHF 25 to 30 June and CHF 40 beyond that, and no extension goes past 31 October 2026.
- Communes
- 24Municipal rates from 63% to 79%
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
La Grande Béroche · lowest rate, 63%
CHF 17’902
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 10’740 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’457 · CHF 173 less than Neuchâtel
Les Verrières · highest rate, 79%
CHF 19’287
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 10’740 · Commune and personal tax CHF 6’842 · CHF 1’212 more than Neuchâtel
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- Commune and personal tax
Estimated income tax in each commune
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All 24 communes by municipal rate
Each dot is a commune. Neuchâtel is marked.
Lowest: La Grande Béroche 63%Highest: Les Verrières 79%
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 Neuchâtel, La Grande Béroche and Les Verrières 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 Neuchâtel 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
Higher in NeuchâtelNeuchâtelCHF 2’500FederalCHF 1’800Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 3’125
Plus CHF 800 per child (federal CHF 700)
Insurance premiums, couple
Higher in NeuchâtelNeuchâtelCHF 4’900FederalCHF 3’700With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 6’125
Plus CHF 800 per child (federal CHF 700)
Third-party childcare
Lower in NeuchâtelNeuchâtelCHF 20’400FederalCHF 25’800Per child under 14. Meals and board do not count.
Commuting
No cantonal limitNeuchâtelNo limitFederalCHF 3’300Second-earner deduction
Lower in NeuchâtelNeuchâtelup to CHF 1’200Federalup to CHF 14’100Neuchâtel allows 25% of the lower net earned income, up to this amount.
The amounts above assume you pay into a pension fund or pillar 3a.
Deduction limits: Canton de Neuchâtel: Instructions générales 2025 pour remplir la déclaration d'impôt (SCCO I754), chiffre 6.8 p.41 and Aperçu des déductions p.57; statute LCdir art. 36 al. 1 let. g. www.ne.ch
Deduction limits: Canton de Neuchâtel: Instructions générales 2025 (SCCO I754), chiffre 6.13 p.44; Notice 2 Imposition de la famille (SCCO I766) pp.5-6; LCdir art. 36 al. 3, REGAE art. 40. www.ne.ch
Deduction limits: Canton de Neuchâtel: Instructions générales 2025 (SCCO I754), chiffre 6.4 A p.37 and Aperçu p.57; RELCdir art. 27. www.ne.ch
Deduction limits: Canton de Neuchâtel: Instructions générales 2025 (SCCO I754), chiffre 6.9 p.42; LCdir art. 36 al. 2. www.ne.ch
Deadline: Canton de Neuchâtel: Extrait des instructions générales 2025 (SCCO I757), cover and 'Demande de prolongation de délai' p.7; RELCdir art. 38; ne.ch Demande de délai. Checked 2026-09-20
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