That makes sense, thanks.
Usually I add just the total amount for each broker, and for the tax office was ok so far.
So I guess there is no way to get back that 30%
Why wouldn’t you be able to get back the Swiss withholding taxes (35%)?
You simply need at least two lines, one for WV (tax value and dividends of securities without foreign withholding taxes) and one for DA-1.
If you also hold securities that pay dividends without any withholding (e.g. ETFs with an Irish domicile), you need to specify two income values on the summary line for WV, one with and one without Swiss withholding taxes.
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Good point. In the eTax for TI should be this one:
Valore Imponibile: taxable value
Soggetto ad imposta preventiva: withholding tax
Non soggetto ad imposta preventiva: no withholding tax
I knew that the withholding tax part should be related of taxes that are paid in CH?
Or is it exactly where I need to add it and then automatically I should get the 35% back?
Then for DA-1 I fill out this part
But then I need to add it manually anyway in the module present in the program
Yes, in the middle field enter the gross dividends that are subject to Swiss withholding taxes and in the bottom field enter the gross dividends not subject to Swiss withholding taxes (e.g. Irish ETF).
You’ll get a tax credit for 35% of the value entered in the middle field.
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Exactly. How do you calculate number of shares at each dividend payout?
Total amount of dividend received (gross) by you
/ dividend per share (gross), as published by fund
= number of shares you‘re holding at record date.
Am I missing something?
I thought it would be that easy, but I kept getting wrong numbers.
you could also create a flex query with the dividends and the number of shares.
You can then execute it for the month you want to retrieve the number of shares.
In my case, I declare each VT purchase and the tax software will compute the accurate dividend amounts.
If you look at “Open Dividend Accruals” or “Change in Dividend Accruals” fields of an activity report for suitable dates, the number of shares is there.
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Thank you very much everyone for the comments on this topic. It’s the first time I’m doing the actions tax declaration and took me a few hours to get it. @San_Francisco your proposal of custom layout for the report was super helpful.
A last question (& sorry in advance if it was covered already): where should I declare the cash “trésorerie” account I hold a IBKR. I’m using Vaud Tax and unsure where and how to add the info.
Thanks all in advance for your kind help
Under Sections wouldn’t you also have to include “Cash Reports”? Because as far as I know you would have to declare in your taxes all cash accounts you have at IBKR just like a bank account. I suspect most of us having at least 2 cash accounts, if buying VT that would be CHF and USD.
Possibly, if you declare all items and all cash balances in different currencies separately - but I don’t.
I just declare the aggregated total from the Net Asset Value section (plus interest of course, if applicable) - which appears as a split between cash & stock (plus dividend accruals) in that section.
I think I’ve had cash balances in 9 currencies last year.
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Not familiar with that particular tax software (mine’s very similar to the Zurich one, I believe), but I don’t think anything would anything wrong with declaring it as a personal or current account (that’s compte privé or compte courant, isn’t it?), as shown in the thread linked by @jmp.
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That’s an excellent idea, I am all in about simplifying the tax declaration whenever possible.
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Anyone ever had to provide more information to the tax office? I provided the report as specified by San_Francisco and I just received a letter asking for my full IBKR report. Whatever that is…
I sent a mail to try to clarify what they want. This is in Neuchatel btw.
I guess they want to have the activity report over a year.
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I’ve always only included the dividend report (in tax document), since I figured it documents all the DA-1 relevant items.
Never had questions.
edit: but if they ask for full report, I’d send them the full activity report.
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Can someone help me? I only have VT (arka) on IBKR, what would be the process to have a tax return attached to my due date on September 30th? Thank you.
For a single position I’d simply enter it directly into the Wertschriftensverzeichnis including all transactions and the tax app will calculate all the income and wealth. Normally the tax software would tell you if they need any supporting document.
If you want IBKR to issue statements for Swiss taxes, you can also vote on the feature 
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