It is the activity statement that I am checking. There I only see it on the Dividend Accruals. alone without it’s negative version. Which means that I should check maybe the January’s Activity statement probably.
I am paying taxes on money I did not have at that time 
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Yeah, it’s already yours when the accrual starts even if it didn’t settle, same for e.g. RSU vesting. It’s the same if you did a wire on the 31st, even if the money is not credited in the other account it’s still part of your net worth.
(True story, happened to me once by mistake that I didn’t declare XXk because of a pending wire, only noticed it 10y later when I was doing double entry accounting and there was a mismatch between the tax number and the number I got from accounting software)
(In practice the amounts are probably low enough to not matter for wealth tax and using the eoy balance still works)
btw I suspect the annual dividend report from March will include all the correct data (that’s the report that’s meant to be used for taxes)
Still haven’t received my tax return invitation.
Thought you (German speaking) guys/gals might enjoy this in the mean time:
(Source)
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« Bonjour, je viens du service des impôts. Nous avons gaspillé tout votre argent. Pouvons-nous en avoir encore plus ? »
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Afaik that is the real IRL scenario.
They come to F-CH and ask for more, much more, than in D-CH, don’t they?
I’m pretty happy about the quality of life and service offered… I don’t think that’s a very wise topic to start.
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That was for the fun part I guess. Tax declaration are fun, so is paying these taxes, in our little chocolate paradise.
However. There are nearby countries where 55% household won’t pay any taxes, real tax haven, for sure! And real baguette, speaking quality of life!
Let us complain about paying taxes!
That’s not always true in all cases. There are distributing funds where there is some accumulation too in addition to the distributions, and the taxable income can be different from the distributions, and there are funds where parts of the distributions could be tax exempt.
The official truth is icTax. IBKR is not aware of Swiss tax rules.
If anyone else happens to be running into interface glitches while declaring Canadian stocks in ZRH Private Tax:
Dividend returns aren’t automatically displayed (in my view) and despite clicking the ruler “Erträge” (which is already checked) off and back on, you cannot enter any returns.
Solution: click “Zugänge/Abgänge” on and off (even if you don’t have any) and the dividends magically appear in the interface.
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I had similar issue with one US stock (IBKR award stock). I will try this trick