Stans · capital, 235%
CHF 11’572
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’212 · Commune and personal tax CHF 4’655
Canton Nidwalden · tax year 2025
Your Nidwalden tax return, 2025
What Nidwalden charges on your salary, what each of its 11 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.
- Filing app
- eTax Nidwalden
- Deadline
- 31 March 2026Ask online at steuern-nw.ch before 31 March 2026 to get up to 31 December 2026; a later date needs a reason such as illness or time abroad.
- Communes
- 11Municipal rates from 134% to 250%
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
Hergiswil (NW) · lowest rate, 134%
CHF 9’593
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’212 · Commune and personal tax CHF 2’676 · CHF 1’979 less than Stans
Wolfenschiessen · highest rate, 250%
CHF 11’866
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’212 · Commune and personal tax CHF 4’949 · CHF 294 more than Stans
- Federal
- Canton
- Commune and personal tax
Estimated income tax in each commune
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All 11 communes by municipal rate
Each dot is a commune. Stans is marked.
Lowest: Hergiswil (NW) 134%Highest: Wolfenschiessen 250%
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 Stans, Hergiswil (NW) and Wolfenschiessen 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 Nidwalden 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
Same as federalNidwaldenCHF 1’800FederalCHF 1’800Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 2’700
Plus CHF 700 per child (federal CHF 700)
Insurance premiums, couple
Same as federalNidwaldenCHF 3’700FederalCHF 3’700With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 5’550
Plus CHF 700 per child (federal CHF 700)
Third-party childcare
Lower in NidwaldenNidwaldenCHF 8’100FederalCHF 25’800Per child under 14. Meals and board do not count.
For care you provide yourself, Nidwalden has a separate deduction of CHF 3’100 per child under 14.
Commuting
Higher in NidwaldenNidwaldenCHF 6’000FederalCHF 3’300Second-earner deduction
Lower in NidwaldenNidwaldenCHF 1’200Federalup to CHF 14’100
The amounts above assume you pay into a pension fund or pillar 3a.
Deduction limits: Kanton Nidwalden: Wegleitung 2025 natürliche Personen, Ziffer 270 / Formular VP, p.21; Steuergesetz Art. 35 Abs. 1 Ziff. 7. www.steuern-nw.ch
Deduction limits: Kanton Nidwalden: Wegleitung 2025, Ziffer 287 / Formular F, p.23; Steuergesetz Art. 35 Abs. 1 Ziff. 8. www.steuern-nw.ch
Deduction limits: Kanton Nidwalden: Wegleitung 2025, Ziffer 201/221, p.18; Steuergesetz Art. 29 Abs. 1 Ziff. 1. www.steuern-nw.ch
Deduction limits: Kanton Nidwalden: Wegleitung 2025, Ziffer 290, p.24; Steuergesetz Art. 36. www.steuern-nw.ch
Deadline: Kanton Nidwalden: steuern-nw.ch Fristerstreckung Natürliche Personen, and Kantonales Steueramt Richtlinie 'Frist zur Einreichung der Steuererklärung' (Steuerpraxis Nidwalden 171, geändert 12.12.2022). Checked 2026-09-20
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