Lausanne · capital, 78.5%
CHF 16’829
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 9’901 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’223
Canton Vaud · tax year 2025
Your Vaud tax return, 2025
What Vaud charges on your salary, what each of its 300 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.
- Filing app
- VaudTax
- Deadline
- 15 March 2026Residents of Vaud get an automatic grace period to 30 June 2026 with no request; a free request made from 16 May can be granted to 30 September 2026 at the office's discretion, and after a reminder no extension is possible.
- Communes
- 300Municipal rates from 46% to 83%
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
Eclépens · lowest rate, 46%
CHF 14’667
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 9’901 · Commune and personal tax CHF 3’061 · CHF 2’162 less than Lausanne
La Praz · highest rate, 83%
CHF 17’129
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 9’901 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’523 · CHF 300 more than Lausanne
- Federal
- Canton
- Commune and personal tax
Estimated income tax in each commune
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All 300 communes by municipal rate
Each dot is a commune. Lausanne is marked.
Lowest: Eclépens 46%Highest: La Praz 83%
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 Lausanne, Eclépens and La Praz 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 Vaud 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 VaudVaudCHF 6’600FederalCHF 1’800Made up of premiums CHF 5’000 and savings interest CHF 1’600
Plus CHF 1’600 per child (federal CHF 700)
Insurance premiums, couple
Higher in VaudVaudCHF 13’200FederalCHF 3’700Made up of premiums CHF 9’900 and savings interest CHF 3’300
Plus CHF 1’600 per child (federal CHF 700)
Third-party childcare
Lower in VaudVaudCHF 15’200FederalCHF 25’800Per child under 14. Meals and board do not count.
Commuting
Higher in VaudVaudCHF 4’080FederalCHF 3’300Vaud's amount is the price of a 2nd-class general travel pass; higher costs you can prove are also deductible.
Second-earner deduction
Lower in VaudVaudCHF 1’700Federalup to CHF 14’100
Vaud counts savings interest only up to the interest you actually declare, and subtracts any premium subsidy from your premiums first.
Deduction limits: Canton de Vaud: Tableau des principales déductions vaudoises 2025, codes 300 and 480; Instructions générales 2025, pp.29-30 (code 300) and p.40 (code 480); statute text Art. 37 al. 1 let. g LI as quoted in the ESTV Feuille cantonale Vaud, p.10. www.vd.ch
Deduction limits: Canton de Vaud: Instructions générales 2025, pp.44-45 (code 670); Tableau des déductions 2025, code 670. www.vd.ch
Deduction limits: Canton de Vaud: Instructions générales 2025, pp.19-21 (code 140, flat-rate table, ceiling and reservation of higher proven costs). www.vd.ch
Deduction limits: Canton de Vaud: Instructions générales 2025, p.26 (code 235); Tableau des déductions 2025, code 235. www.vd.ch
Deadline: Canton de Vaud: Instructions générales 2025, p.15; vd.ch 'Demander un délai pour déposer ma déclaration d'impôt'; Directive Demandes de délais unitaires (personnes physiques), 5 janvier 2026. Checked 2026-09-20
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