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Canton Ticino · tax year 2025

Your Ticino tax return, 2025

What Ticino charges on your salary, what each of its 106 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.

Filing app
eTax PF
Deadline
30 April 2026Ask online at ti.ch/pf-proroga before 30 April 2026 with a genuine reason; the canton publishes no end date, and any further extension is exceptional and needs a written, reasoned request to your tax office.
Communes
106Municipal rates from 56% to 100%
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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

Bellinzona · capital, 93%

CHF 14’542

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 6’641 · Commune and personal tax CHF 6’196

Porza · lowest rate, 56%

CHF 12’085

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 6’641 · Commune and personal tax CHF 3’739 · CHF 2’457 less than Bellinzona

Verzasca · highest rate, 100%

CHF 15’007

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 6’641 · Commune and personal tax CHF 6’661 · CHF 465 more than Bellinzona

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  • Commune and personal tax
Estimated income tax in each commune

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All 106 communes by municipal rate

Each dot is a commune. Bellinzona is marked.

60%70%80%90%100%Bellinzona 93%

Lowest: Porza 56%Highest: Verzasca 100%

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 Bellinzona, Porza and Verzasca 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 Ticino 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

    TicinoCHF 5’500
    FederalCHF 1’800

    Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 7’800

    Plus CHF 1’200 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in Ticino

  • Insurance premiums, couple

    TicinoCHF 10’900
    FederalCHF 3’700

    With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 15’400

    Plus CHF 1’200 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in Ticino

  • Third-party childcare

    TicinoCHF 26’200
    FederalCHF 25’800

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

    Higher in Ticino

  • Commuting

    TicinoNo limit
    FederalCHF 3’300
    No cantonal limit

  • Second-earner deduction

    TicinoCHF 8’100
    Federalup to CHF 14’100
    Lower in Ticino

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

Deduction limits: Cantone Ticino: Istruzioni per la compilazione della dichiarazione d'imposta 2025 (persone fisiche), cifra 12 p.26 and comparison table p.50; Art. 32 cpv. 1 lett. g and 1bis LT (Foglio cantonale ESTV, stato febbraio 2026, p.9). www4.ti.ch

Deduction limits: Cantone Ticino: Istruzioni PF 2025, cifra 20, p.29; Art. 32a LT (Foglio cantonale ESTV, p.10). www4.ti.ch

Deduction limits: Cantone Ticino: Istruzioni PF 2025, Modulo 4 cifra 2, p.23 and comparison table p.50; Art. 25 LT and Art. 3 DIPF (Foglio cantonale ESTV, p.7). www4.ti.ch

Deduction limits: Cantone Ticino: Istruzioni PF 2025, cifra 15.5, p.29; Art. 32 cpv. 2 LT (Foglio cantonale ESTV, p.10). www4.ti.ch

Deadline: Cantone Ticino: Istruzioni PF 2025, 'Termine da osservare' and 'Proroga del termine', p.7; DFE press release on the 2025 return. Checked 2026-09-20

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