Hello, i cant figure out how stocks are taxed in CH. The internet is giving vague answers. I am Danish but with swiss citizenship, i’m considering a move to canton Neuchatel. How are stocks taxed?
@meshak2 You can make a capital gain of 50,000 and sell without paying any tax. I think that most other governments in the world impose a tax in this situation.
For example, in France you will pay 9,500. America will pay 7,500 and in Germany 12500.
Note: The numbers are just examples. But it explains why my friends in these countries consider me residing in a tax paradise...
@anna Search for mustachian posts about tax on dividends/stocks in Switzerland, or thepoorswiss on the same subject. They explain well all the details. The big picture is as other people mentioned in comments, no tax on capital gains if you are not a professional investor, and tax on dividends depending on their source.
@anna 0% on capital gain, however dividend are added to your work income and taxed as such. Moreover, we have one of the highest wealth taxes of the world, but it varies a lot depending on the Canton (0.02% in OW up to 0.79% in BS).
@anna All the advice I am seeing here is only true with a caveat. Yes, there is no capital gains tax for individuals. But if you trade fairly actively it’s easy to fall under “gewerbsmässigem Wertschriftenhandel,” which means all you pay income tax and social contributions on all of your gains.