Quellensteuer/ Withholding Tax

Finance, Taxes, Banking, Insurance and Retirement
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Hi all

I am quite new to this forum. i have a small question regarding Withholding tax/quellensteuer. I am having a B permit ( Family) and have been working since April 2015 in Zurich and living with my husband ( who is having a C resident permit) in Basel. My employer has been deducting " Quellensteuer" from my monthly salary.

Now my husband was preparing the tax declaration for 2015 and we found that we have to enter details and salary statements for both of us and the Tax is been calculated for combined salary even though I paid it monthly as " Quellensteuerabzug".

Does anyone know what to do in such a situation?

Thanks for any help.

Lili

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File you tax return, add both your salaries and further income. The tax authorities will count your payments against the overall tax bill.

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Confirming the above, Canton Vaud tax office says that a married couple, where one has a C permit or is a Swiss citizen, is to be taxed under the ordinary process and that source tax is not to be raised:

"Es gibt zwei Steuerarten, die Quellensteuer und die ordentliche Steuer:

Die Besteuerung an der Quelle wird bei den meisten Ausländern angewendet, die sich in der Schweiz niederlassen, bis sie eine Niederlassungsbewilligung C erhalten. Die Quellensteuer wird nicht erhoben, wenn einer der Ehepartner Schweizer Staatsbürger ist, eine Niederlassungsbewilligung C besitzt oder als politischer Flüchtling anerkannt ist. In diesem Fall wird das Ehepaar nach dem ordentlichen Verfahren besteuert."

http://www.vaud.ch/de/leistungen/neu...eiten/steuern/

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Similar thing happened to me in Basel. In the tax declaration you also give your tax statement so that they know how much quellensteuer you have paid. And this will be deducted from the tax bill that is calculated.

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You should also inform your company so it no longer deducts any "Quellensteuer" from your salary.

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Thank you all for the infos. I will do the tax declaration and along with that i will make a note about the Quellensteuer that i already paid.

@me.anon: I have already informed my company but not yet received a reply. I will let you know what their reply is.

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Hi everyone

Eventhough it took some time, yet i received some answers finally.

I contacted Quellensteueramt in Liestal and they said i have to ask my employer to return back the Quellensteuer they deducted so far. I informed this my employer and since last month they are not deducting any Quellensteuer anymore and they said that they will return my Quellensteuer from previous months.

I dont understand why they did like that so far . I had informed my employer in the very beginning that my Husband is having a C Niederlassungsbewilligung.

Anyways thankyou all once again for your helpful replies.