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Canton St. Gallen · tax year 2025

Your St. Gallen tax return, 2025

What St. Gallen charges on your salary, what each of its 75 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.

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E-Tax SG
Deadline
31 March 2026Ask online at steuern.sg.ch before 31 March 2026; it is only granted if your due tax bills are paid, and the date that counts is the one confirmed to you.
Communes
75Municipal rates from 61% to 145%
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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

St. Gallen · capital, 138%

CHF 15’146

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’808 · Commune and personal tax CHF 7’633

Balgach · lowest rate, 61%

CHF 10’887

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’808 · Commune and personal tax CHF 3’374 · CHF 4’259 less than St. Gallen

Wartau · highest rate, 145%

CHF 15’533

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 5’808 · Commune and personal tax CHF 8’020 · CHF 387 more than St. Gallen

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Estimated income tax in each commune

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All 75 communes by municipal rate

Each dot is a commune. St. Gallen is marked.

75%100%125%St. Gallen 138%

Lowest: Balgach 61%Highest: Wartau 145%

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 St. Gallen, Balgach and Wartau 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 St. Gallen 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

    St. GallenCHF 3’400
    FederalCHF 1’800

    Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 3’900

    Plus CHF 1’100 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in St. Gallen

  • Insurance premiums, couple

    St. GallenCHF 6’800
    FederalCHF 3’700

    With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 7’900

    Plus CHF 1’100 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in St. Gallen

  • Third-party childcare

    St. GallenCHF 26’700
    FederalCHF 25’800

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

    Higher in St. Gallen

  • Commuting

    St. GallenCHF 8’000
    FederalCHF 3’300
    Higher in St. Gallen

  • Second-earner deduction

    St. GallenCHF 500
    Federalup to CHF 14’100
    Lower in St. Gallen

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

Deduction limits: Kanton St. Gallen: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziffer 14 (p.27); ESTV Kantonsblatt St. Gallen, Art. 45 Abs. 1 Bst. g StG. www.sg.ch

Deduction limits: Kanton St. Gallen: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziffer 16.2 (p.28). www.sg.ch

Deduction limits: Kanton St. Gallen: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziffer 10 (p.23); Art. 39 Abs. 1 lit. a StG. www.sg.ch

Deduction limits: Kanton St. Gallen: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, Ziffer 17 (p.29); Art. 45 Abs. 2 StG. www.sg.ch

Deadline: Kanton St. Gallen: Wegleitung 2025 p.8 (deadline is the date printed on page 1 of the return; extension on request) and sg.ch Fristverlängerung Privatpersonen; the 31 March and 31 May dates come from commune pages (Uzwil, Altstätten, Eschenbach). Checked 2026-09-20

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