Zürich · capital, 119%
CHF 12’074
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 4’672 · Commune and personal tax CHF 5’697
Canton Zurich · tax year 2025
Your Zurich tax return, 2025
What Zurich charges on your salary, what each of its 160 communes costs, and where its limits differ from federal law.
- Filing app
- ZHprivateTax
- Deadline
- 31 March 2026Ask your commune before 31 March 2026, online if it offers that; the canton allows extensions to 30 November 2026 at most, and a commune may first grant 30 September, so ask again before then if you need longer.
- Communes
- 160Municipal rates from 72% to 129%
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
Kilchberg (ZH) · lowest rate, 72%
CHF 9’833
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 4’672 · Commune and personal tax CHF 3’456 · CHF 2’241 less than Zürich
Maschwanden · highest rate, 129%
CHF 12’550
Federal CHF 1’705 · Canton CHF 4’672 · Commune and personal tax CHF 6’173 · CHF 476 more than Zürich
- Federal
- Canton
- Commune and personal tax
Estimated income tax in each commune
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All 160 communes by municipal rate
Each dot is a commune. Zürich is marked.
Lowest: Kilchberg (ZH) 72%Highest: Maschwanden 129%
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 Zürich, Kilchberg (ZH) and Maschwanden 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 Zurich 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 ZurichZurichCHF 2’900FederalCHF 1’800Without a pension fund or pillar 3a: CHF 4’350
Plus CHF 1’300 per child (federal CHF 700)
Insurance premiums, couple
Higher in ZurichZurichCHF 5’800FederalCHF 3’700With no pension fund or pillar 3a payment on either side: CHF 8’700
Plus CHF 1’300 per child (federal CHF 700)
Third-party childcare
Lower in ZurichZurichCHF 25’000FederalCHF 25’800Per child under 14. Meals and board do not count.
Commuting
Higher in ZurichZurichCHF 5’200FederalCHF 3’300Second-earner deduction
Lower in ZurichZurichCHF 6’100Federalup to CHF 14’100
The amounts above assume you pay into a pension fund or pillar 3a.
Deduction limits: Kanton Zürich: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025 (form 305), pp.15-16, Ziffer 15 and Formular 365 Versicherungsprämien 2025; statute § 31 Abs. 1 lit. g StG as quoted in the ESTV Kantonsblatt Zürich. www.zh.ch
Deduction limits: Kanton Zürich: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, p.18, Ziffer 16.6; ZStB Nr. 34.1 (version valid to 31.12.2025), Rz 42-51. www.zh.ch
Deduction limits: Kanton Zürich: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, p.13, Berufsauslagen Ziffer 1; § 26 Abs. 1 lit. a StG. www.zh.ch
Deduction limits: Kanton Zürich: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, p.18, Ziffer 17 Sonderabzug bei Erwerbstätigkeit beider Ehegatten; § 31 Abs. 2 StG. www.zh.ch
Deadline: Kanton Zürich: Wegleitung zur Steuererklärung 2025, p.7, Frist zur Abgabe; ZStB Nr. 132.1, G.I.1 and G.II (extension ceiling 30 November, automatic 30 September for self-employed residents). Checked 2026-09-20
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