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

Tax

Income and wealth tax in Uri

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

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 Uri

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 Uri

Inheritance tax for children

Uri: children are exempt from inheritance tax.
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Inheritance tax for spouses

Uri: the spouse is exempt from inheritance tax.
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Gift tax

Uri: gift tax: levied; spouse, parents and children (incl. adoptive and step) exempt; gifts up to CHF 15,000 exempt.
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Lump-sum taxation

Uri allows expenditure-based taxation for non-Swiss persons arriving for the first time or after at least ten years abroad, with no gainful work in Switzerland.
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Lump-sum minimum tax base

Uri income minimum base is the highest of CHF 435,000, seven times annual rent or rental value, or three times the annual board-and-lodging price; the wealth base is at least 20 times the income base.
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Family allowance per child

Uri monthly child allowance per child: CHF 240.
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Naturalisation

Becoming Swiss in Uri

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

Uri requires five years of uninterrupted residence in the canton immediately before filing.
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Residence in the commune

Uri requires five years of uninterrupted residence in the commune, and the page also states ten years in Switzerland with ages 8 to 18 counting double (minimum six actual years).
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Spoken language

Uri requires oral German at B1, with exemptions for native speakers or five years of schooling in German-speaking Switzerland.
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Written language

Uri requires written German at A2, with the same exemptions.
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Knowledge test

Uri proves civic knowledge by a Staatskundetest held twice a year by bwz uri, from which people with five years of Swiss schooling are exempt.
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Who decides

In Uri the commune assembly decides on communal citizenship and the Regierungsrat grants cantonal citizenship after the federal permit.
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Cantonal and communal fees

Uri charges separate federal (CHF 50 to 200), cantonal (CHF 500 to 1,500) and communal fees, as of the Merkblatt's 7 February 2019 date.
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Social assistance

Uri requires orderly finances, including no social assistance in the five years before filing, which is stricter than the federal three years.
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Questions

Living in Uri: common questions