Relocating to Basel-Landschaft: tax, health premiums, rent and naturalisation

Tax

Income and wealth tax in Basel-Landschaft

Total federal, cantonal and communal tax per year for each tracked commune in Basel-Landschaft, tax year 2026, computed with the official ESTV calculator. No church tax is included.

Standard profiles: gross employment income with the calculator's standard deductions. Single: one adult aged 35. Married: couple aged 40 and 38, one earner, two children aged 10 and 8. The asset profile adds net taxable wealth to the married profile.

Health insurance

Health insurance premiums in Basel-Landschaft

Federal Office of Public Health, premium year 2027: adult aged 26 or over, accident cover included, standard model, CHF 300 deductible, CHF per month.

Housing and safety

Rent and safety in Basel-Landschaft

Rent: Federal Statistical Office structural survey, 2024, net rent excluding service and heating charges. Safety: police crime statistics, 2025; rates in cantons with large city centres reflect visitors and commuters as well as residents.

Cantonal rules

Inheritance, lump-sum taxation, schools and family in Basel-Landschaft

Inheritance tax for children

Transfers to direct descendants are exempt from the inheritance and gift tax.
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Inheritance tax for spouses

Transfers to spouses and registered partners are exempt.
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Gift tax

Gift tax follows the same exemptions: spouse, parents and direct descendants exempt.
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Lump-sum taxation

The right to lump-sum taxation exists on arrival, until the end of the current tax period.
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Family allowance per child

The cantonal child allowance is CHF 215 per child per month (2026).
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International schools

International School Basel states that it is an IB World School offering the PYP, MYP and Diploma Programme across campuses in Aesch and Reinach, with NEASC accreditation.
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Naturalisation

Becoming Swiss in Basel-Landschaft

Federal law sets the national minimum. The canton and the commune add their own residence periods, language levels and tests, and they decide on cantonal and communal citizenship.

Residence in the canton

Basel-Landschaft requires settlement in the canton for 5 years before filing the application.
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Residence in the commune

Basel-Landschaft law forbids communes from requiring less than 2 or more than 5 years of settlement in the commune.
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Spoken language

Basel-Landschaft requires oral German at least at reference level B1, equal to the federal minimum.
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Written language

Basel-Landschaft requires written German at least at reference level B1, above the federal A2 written.
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Knowledge test

The law requires basic knowledge of the geographical, historical, political and social conditions of Switzerland, the canton and the commune, but prescribes no test format.
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Who decides

In Basel-Landschaft the Bürger- or Einwohnergemeindeversammlung grants communal citizenship (this may be delegated to the council), and the Landrat grants cantonal citizenship to foreign nationals, within 10 weeks of the Regierungsrat's motion.
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Cantonal and communal fees

Basel-Landschaft law sets maximum fees of CHF 2,000 each for the commune and for the canton, raisable by up to CHF 1,000 in exceptionally complex cases, payable also on refusal or withdrawal, with cost advances allowed; amounts are indexed to consumer prices.
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Social assistance

Under Basel-Landschaft law, anyone who received social assistance in the 5 years immediately before filing or during the procedure does not meet the participation-in-economic-life requirement unless the aid was fully repaid, a stricter period than the federal 3 years.
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Questions

Living in Basel-Landschaft: common questions