Canton
Canton of Basel-Stadt or Basel-City is one of the 26 cantons forming the Swiss Confederation. It is composed of three municipalities with Basel as the capital. It is traditionally considered a "half-canton", the other half being Basel-Landschaft, its rural counterpart.
A single person without children on a gross wage of CHF 100'000 pays CHF 12'803 a year in canton, municipality and personal tax on the mean of the municipalities, weighted by residents (tax year 2026, without church, federal and wealth tax). On the mean of the municipalities weighted by residents it is CHF 12'251 in Switzerland. Basel-Stadt has 204'157 residents.
Sources: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), Swiss Federal Tax Administration (FTA).
Source: FSO