I have a question that I’m hoping someone who is also a foreigner can help me out with.
I’d been in Switzerland for two years, before moving to a neighbouring country for a year. While living in Switzerland on a B permit the first time around, I didn’t complete the tax rectification form for either year, as I didn’t know I had to (colleagues at work told me it wasn’t mandatory).
I’m back in Switzerland now, and know that I need to fill out this rectification form when I receive it. If I’ve held stock since before being here the first time (I’ve had it for four years, though haven’t bought or sold anything since my first purchase), can I now confidently fill out this rectification form independently and declare the entirety of my wealth/fortune, without fearing potentially getting into trouble for not having done it when I first came to Geneva?
Depending on the sum involved (few hundred francs of tax?), maybe just contact the tax authority, at least in Zurich they seem to be fairly reasonable, I’d assume Geneva is similar (but you never know )
Maybe just say that you’ve only been made aware of it recently and you don’t know what you’re supposed to do (as @ProvidentRetriever says you might be under the threshold anyway and in some cantons the thresholds changed recently so they might have been different in previous years)
Geneva is the only canton which has a witholding tax up until 500k per year (all other cantons have 120k per year, afaik). Regarding wealth tax: it seems that you can deduct CHF 82’200.- as a single person (see LIPP art. 58)
You could also try what @nabalzbhf proposed. From my personal experience, the people at the tax office were always helpful (can only speak for some German speaking cantons though)
When I became a tax declarer upon changing from B to C permit in GVA 15 years ago, they were quite relaxed about this. However reading the comments on the forum from other cantons I wonder if the situation has changed in GVA too
Also you could have accumulated wealth whilst outside CH
Unless you are talking millions I would assume you will be ok. But if you have any doubt, give them a call to be sure
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