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Canton Valais · tax year 2025

Your Valais tax return, 2025

What Valais charges on your salary, what each of its 122 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.

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Deadline
31 March 2026Pay CHF 20 before 31 March 2026, with no request: that gets you to 31 July 2026 (31 October for the main self-employed); 31 December is only for special cases.
Communes
122Municipal rates from 100% to 145%
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Your commune moves the bill more than you think

Valais communes apply their own tariffs rather than a shared multiplier, so the map shades each commune by its rate. The three bills below come from the federal tax administration's 2025 calculator.

Household
Children
Gross salary

Sion · capital, 110%

CHF 14’558

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 6’577 · Commune and personal tax CHF 6’276

Bister · lowest rate, 100%

CHF 13’989

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 6’577 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’707 · CHF 569 less than Sion

Leukerbad · highest rate, 145%

CHF 17’438

Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 6’577 · Commune and personal tax CHF 9’156 · CHF 2’880 more than Sion

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  • Commune and personal tax
Municipal rate in each commune

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All 122 communes by municipal rate

Each dot is a commune. Sion is marked.

100%110%120%130%140%Sion 110%

Lowest: Bister 100%Highest: Leukerbad 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.

Valais communes set their own tariffs, so only the three communes above carry a franc figure here.

Municipal rates: federal tax administration, tax year 2025. Boundaries: swisstopo.

Where Valais 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

    ValaisCHF 3’620
    FederalCHF 1’800

    Plus CHF 1’130 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in Valais

  • Insurance premiums, couple

    ValaisCHF 7’240
    FederalCHF 3’700

    Plus CHF 1’130 per child (federal CHF 700)

    Higher in Valais

  • Third-party childcare

    ValaisCHF 10’000
    FederalCHF 25’800

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

    For care you provide yourself, Valais has a separate deduction of up to CHF 3’130 per child; together with paid childcare the two reach at most CHF 10’000.

    Lower in Valais

  • Commuting

    ValaisNo limit
    FederalCHF 3’300
    No cantonal limit

  • Second-earner deduction

    ValaisCHF 6’290
    Federalup to CHF 14’100
    Lower in Valais

Deduction limits: Canton du Valais, Service cantonal des contributions: Guide de la déclaration d'impôts 2025, code 2560 (p.37), and Guide simplifié 2025 (p.3). geo.vs.ch

Deduction limits: Canton du Valais, Service cantonal des contributions: Guide de la déclaration d'impôts 2025, codes 2512 / 2512a (p.34), and Directive n° 7.05. geo.vs.ch

Deduction limits: Canton du Valais, Service cantonal des contributions: Guide de la déclaration d'impôts 2025, frais de déplacement (p.27); Art. 22 al. 1 let. a LF. geo.vs.ch

Deduction limits: Canton du Valais, Service cantonal des contributions: Guide de la déclaration d'impôts 2025, code 2520 (p.35); Art. 29 al. 2 LF. geo.vs.ch

Deadline: Canton du Valais, Service cantonal des contributions: Guide de la déclaration d'impôts 2025, 'Délai pour le dépôt de la déclaration' (p.8), and Calendrier de dépôt de la déclaration d'impôt 2025, personnes physiques. Checked 2026-09-20

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