Public Finance Data

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Here are a few suggestions of interesting data sources in the area of public finance that could be included into swissdata:

In particular, the Federal Tax Administration has a large number of annually updated Excel sheets with statistics from the federal income tax. The data is very informative and used regularly, but cumbersome to use. The data include:

• taxable income sum, number of taxpayers, and total taxes paid by income bracket
• net income sum (Reineinkommen / revenu net), number of taxpayers, and total taxes paid by income bracket
• moments of the distribution and inequality measures
• all results available for CH / by canton / by municipality
• annually, starting as early as 1947 for some data (but old data only available as scanned PDF)
• Source: https://www.estv.admin.ch/estv/de/home/die-estv/steuerstatistiken-estv/allgemeine-steuerstatistiken/direkte-bundessteuer.html

Similarly, the ESTV publishes statistics from the cantonal wealth taxes :

• wealth tabulations by wealth bracket for all cantons
• annually since 2003, random years before
• Source: https://www.estv.admin.ch/estv/de/home/die-estv/steuerstatistiken-estv/allgemeine-steuerstatistiken/gesamtschweizerische-vermoegensstatistik-der-natuerlichen-person.html

Annual budgets for cantons and municipalities:

• Source: https://www.efv.admin.ch/efv/de/home/themen/finanzstatistik/daten.html
• Here you may want to check with Florian Chatagny (EFV, previously KOF) and Marko Köthenbürger where they are with their plans to set up a database with these data for research.

I hope you'll find this input helpful!