Paperwork

Swiss tax forms, and where they come from

There is no national form catalogue. Your canton issues the return, the Confederation publishes the federal forms, and we link to both rather than mirroring copies that go stale.

Have us handle the formsThe deadlines
  • 26 cantonal systems
  • Official sources only
  • No mirrored PDFs

Official sources

Four places worth bookmarking

Each of these is maintained by the authority that issues the form. A copy held here would be a copy that is wrong the moment the authority revises it.

Your cantonal tax administrationThe tax return itself, and every form that belongs to it, comes from your canton. This is the Federal Tax Administration’s directory of all twenty-six.Federal direct tax formsWhat the Confederation itself publishes, including the forms that accompany a federal filing.Withholding tax reclaim formsFor reclaiming Swiss withholding tax, and for the foreign tax credit on dividends from abroad — the DA-1 territory.Double-taxation agreementsThe treaty texts themselves, from the State Secretariat for International Finance. Relief is claimed under a specific article, never in general.

What actually reaches you

Three pieces of paper that matter

For an employed expatriate, this is the whole of it. Anything else that arrives is usually a request for a document you already have.

The declaration package, from your canton

If you are required to file, your canton sends it — on paper or as credentials for its own online filing tool. Each canton runs its own system, and most now expect the return electronically.

A correction request, under tax at source

Cantonal, and due by 31 March of the following year. That deadline cannot be extended.

The assessment, months after filing

The Veranlagungsverfügung is not a form to complete but a decision to check — against what was filed, inside the 30-day objection window.

Or do not touch a form at all

Completing and filing the return is the service. You send documents through your portal, in the categories the Swiss return uses; we complete the canton’s forms, file electronically, and deal with whatever the office sends back — in the language it writes in.

What a return includesHow it works

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A senior Swiss tax expert reads it personally and replies within one business day with a fixed price for your return.

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Emanuel Flury

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Your return is prepared by a named senior consultant who stays with your file — not passed down to junior staff.

What you get either way

One dedicated senior expert, start to filing
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Where people go from here

When they are dueThe dates that bind, and the ones that can be extendedWhat they ask forEach section of the return, and the document that answers itOr have us fileWe complete the canton’s forms and submit them

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