{"id":2168,"date":"2026-01-08T16:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/?page_id=2168"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:37:33","slug":"taxes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/rights-and-duties\/taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you are a recognized refugee (<strong>B permit<\/strong>), a temporarily admitted refugee (<strong>refugee F permit<\/strong>) or a temporarily admitted person (<strong>foreigner F permit<\/strong>), you are required to pay taxes in Switzerland on any income you have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taxes on your salary are withheld at source, i.e. deducted directly from the salary before it is paid. The level of taxation varies depending on the canton. For more information contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.estv.admin.ch\/estv\/de\/home\/direkte-bundessteuer\/dbst-quellensteuer\/qst-links-kantone.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">competent authority in your canton of residence<\/a>, or read about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.estv.admin.ch\/estv\/en\/home\/fta\/swiss-tax-system\/swiss-tax-system.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swiss tax system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a recognized refugee (B permit), a temporarily admitted refugee (refugee F permit) or a temporarily admitted person (foreigner F permit), you are required to pay taxes in Switzerland on any income you have. Taxes on your salary are withheld at source, i.e. deducted directly from the salary before it is paid. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":563,"featured_media":0,"parent":165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2168\/revisions\/2470"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.unhcr.org\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}