Relocating to Jura: tax, health premiums, rent and naturalisation

Tax

Income and wealth tax in Jura

Total federal, cantonal and communal tax per year for each tracked commune in Jura, 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 Jura

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 Jura

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 Jura

Inheritance tax for children

Jura exempts descendants from inheritance and gift tax.
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Inheritance tax for spouses

Jura exempts the spouse and registered partner from inheritance and gift tax.
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Gift tax

The Jura exemption for spouse and descendants applies to gifts as well as inheritance.
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Lump-sum taxation

Jura applies expenditure-based taxation in place of income tax.
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Lump-sum minimum tax base

The Jura minimum base for expenditure-based tax is CHF 200,000, or higher if seven times rent or three times board price is greater.
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Bilingual public schooling

Jura offers an intercantonal French-German bilingual maturity with Basel-Landschaft, with two years at Laufen and two at Porrentruy.
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Family allowance per child

Jura child allowance is CHF 275 per month and training allowance CHF 325 per month in 2026.
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Naturalisation

Becoming Swiss in Jura

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 commune

Jura asks for domicile of two years in the commune immediately before the application, as a rule; the canton page states the last two years in the same commune.
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Spoken language

Oral French at B1 is required.
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Written language

Written French at A2 is required.
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Knowledge test

No separate knowledge test is described; the applicant answers a questionnaire in the interview on geography, history, civics and general knowledge of Switzerland and Jura.
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Interview

Applicants attend an interview with a questionnaire on four themes.
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Who decides

Communal admission is decided by the communal assembly (or general council where the regulation says so), and the Government confers the communal and cantonal citizenship of a foreign national.
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Cantonal and communal fees

The canton page lists CHF 200 per person under 25 and CHF 500 to 1,000 per dossier above that age.
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Social assistance

No dependence on or debt to social assistance in the last three years.
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Questions

Living in Jura: common questions