# Utilities for a short rental property
**URL:** https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765
**Category:** Taxes
**Created:** [November 29, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765 "2025-11-29T09:44:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Giff](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Giff)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2025, 9:44am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765/1 "2025-11-29T09:44:09Z")
Can you guys help solidify my conviction (shared by Gemini) that utilities like gas, electricity and internet (and cleaning!) can be deducted when declaring income from a property (abroad, but it should not matter) rented out via Airbnb/booking?
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### Author:  [@nabalzbhf](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/nabalzbhf)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2025, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765/2 "2025-11-29T10:01:46Z")
I don’t think it should, what is deducted are maintenance costs (and some fees).
It’s also no listed in e.g. [https://assets.airbnb.com/help/Airbnb-Tax-Guide-2021-Switzerland-FRENCH-Final.pdf](https://assets.airbnb.com/help/Airbnb-Tax-Guide-2021-Switzerland-FRENCH-Final.pdf) (which is more or less a copy of [Fedlex](https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1991/1184_1184_1184/fr#art_32))
I think for this to work you’d need to have a separate company (which then could balance its account).
edit: maybe try to have gemini find you some legal basis for it? (either law, ordinance, or jurisprudence)
edit: seems like some cantons have guide with more details, e.g. Geneva:
> Sont en revanche déductibles les
> redevances en matières de droits d’eau si le propriétaire d’un objet locatif les
> prend à sa charge sans se les faire rembourser par les locataires;
[https://www.ge.ch/document/23670/telecharger](https://www.ge.ch/document/23670/telecharger)
So maybe just ask the tax office? (or deduct and let them decide) btw make sure it’s worth it vs. the default deductions which can be 10-20% of the rental income, esp. if you’re not doing any maintenance work.
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### Author:  [@Giff](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Giff)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765/3 "2025-11-29T11:16:01Z")
> [@nabalzbhf](#):
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> So maybe just ask the tax office? (or deduct and let them decide) btw make sure it’s worth it vs. the default deductions which can be 10-20% of the rental income, esp. if you’re not doing any maintenance work.
Thanks, I guess I just add them since deadline is tomorrow 🙂
The fees for managing the place remotely are already over 20% of the income so everything else I can throw in helps.
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### Author:  [@Freeride21](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Freeride21)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 6:39pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765/4 "2026-03-16T18:39:54Z")
Does anyone know how to declare occasional short term revenues of properties in Switzerland ?
For instance, I rent my secondary residence apartment in Wallis for \<10k CHF per year.
I would declare this as “other revenues”
Can I deduct what I pay for the cleaning lady?
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### Author:  [@Giff](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/Giff)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765/5 "2026-03-16T19:15:40Z")
I’d guess you’d declare it for what it is, i.e., rent? As for the cleaning, I am afraid the answer is no
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### Author:  [@larix.aurea](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/u/larix.aurea)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.mustachianpost.com/t/utilities-for-a-short-rental-property/17765/6 "2026-03-16T19:21:32Z")
If you own the apartment you would need to declare your rental income as **code 3.340** : (see: Traitement fiscal de la location d’immeubles meublés)