Spouse lives and works in France - VaudTax implications

Taxes
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Hi all,
Quite a specific one from me today. Wanted to try and avoid a specialist tax advisor but it may be unavoidable.
I’ve been doing my own taxes for a few years now but my life situation changed somewhat last year in that I got married. My wife lives and works in France. I know I need to include her income somehow in my tax return - for now I’ve essentially just put it in as contribuable 2 - but I’m not sure what to put for her income tax since she has CSG payments, the equivalents to pillar 1/2, social security payments, health etc.
Was hoping to hear if anyone has any similar experience to this? Is the solution just put in what I think is correct and have them sort it out in the end, with all the information I have?
Thanks!

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Her income is taxed in France.
You only need to provide her (taxable) income in addition to yours to determine the tax rate;
Then the rate will be applied to your CH income only.

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Just ask the tax office what they want/how to do it.

(as you say you need to declare her income, but it’s only to compute the tax rate)

( https://www.ne.ch/autorites/DFS/SCCO/Documents/PP/Circulaire_30_AFC.pdf has some general overview page 6)

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I guess the issue I’m having is that when I add just her taxable income, it then says we need to pay tax of x amount on both incomes (even though I put her place of domicile as France). Which then puts my missing tax payment as over double what I have paid over the year since it’s “missing” all of her tax payments?

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Yeah that’s why I’d just ask the tax office how they want you to declare it.

(there’s a chance they’ll tell you to do it as you’ve done, add a comment and that they’ll compute the correct number on their side, it’s likely the software doesn’t support it be default)

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My wife used to work in Germany but live in CH, ie taxable here. Back then I approached the tax authorities and they gave me a formula how to convert her salary into a Swiss equivalent. It wasn’t that complicated but would never have figured out the conversion myself. Just do the same, they were really helpful, no tax advisor needed.