Tax declaration with Visa B?

Finance, Taxes, Banking, Insurance and Retirement
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Hello!

I have a B visa and pay taxes at source (calculated and paid by my company). My salary is less than 120k (yah, not a bad senior R&D electronics/embedded industrial systems engineer with years of experience, but still not rich, such is life).

As far as I know, I only must file a tax declaration if "total family income is more than 120k", so no question: the income is less than 120k, I don't file anything.

But last year my wife started receiving a salary. She also has a B visa, so she also pays taxes at source. But it seems that everything together makes our income more than 120k (around 125k).

I did not send any tax declaration for 2023 (I still pay from source and did not ask to change this mode).

The question is:

Should I do anything immediately? Or should I just wait for a letter from the tax office regarding the difference between "already paid" and "must be paid" and pay it? Do I have any problems?

Thank you.

2
Call the tax office and ask them to send you the documentation.

B permit, by the way.

3
I don't think so - if both you and your wife pay taxes at source on a B permit, no need to file a tax declaration.

If you made additional pension pillar 2 or pillar 3a contributions, or pay for daycare, it is advantageous to you to file a tax declaration.

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It appears that the OP is resident in Canton Aargau. In this canton the income of the marriage partners is not counted together for purposes of the 120’000 threshold. A mandatory ordinary tax filing should not be required based on the facts presented.

More information is at this link:

https://www.ag.ch/de/verwaltung/dfr/…c690d107e06_de

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Thank you very much !!!!

Yes, Aargau.

Sure, Permit B

I'm going to change my tax mode and start to file a tax declaration. Pillar 2/3a is one of the reasons.