Calculate property gains tax in Solothurn and see what you keep.

To the franc, if your figures are right, you bought within the last 30 years and never deferred a gain from a home sale. Such an earlier deferral increases the tax, and the calculator has no field for it. Nor does it apply the pension rate for sales in old age (see below). The calculator uses the 2026 scale and the 2026 multipliers of all 104 municipalities, including Dornach's later increase to 92 per cent.

For church tax, the official data are unclear in some municipalities, or the parish depends on the part of town, as in Solothurn's Steingruben district. The calculator then shows a note; church tax may differ there. In our checks, it matched the canton's online calculator to the centime, except in one rare borderline case by just under 2 francs. The result is a guide figure. What is binding is the tax ruling (Steuerentscheid) you receive from the canton after the sale.

No. The calculator works in your browser, and your figures are not sent to us. Nobody will call you because of it. So you can also run the figures for your parents, in your own time.

Not as a rule of its own (Freibetrag). But the first CHF 12,400 of taxable gain stay tax-free as long as the gain is below CHF 319,900. That is the first bracket of the scale, and it mainly helps with smaller gains.

With a CHF 13,000 gain and short ownership, you pay CHF 58.30 in the town of Solothurn, without church tax. From CHF 319,900 of taxable gain, this advantage disappears: 10.5 per cent then applies to the whole amount.

Documented value-adding investments and the costs of buying and selling. These include an extension, the usual estate agent's commission, insofar as tax practice recognises it, and notarisation costs. The early repayment charge (Vorfälligkeitsentschädigung) counts too: the bank's fee when the sale ends your fixed-rate mortgage early. Maintenance such as repainting does not count (§ 56 Tax Act; Tax Manual § 56 No. 1).

After five full years of ownership. From the sixth full year, the gain is reduced by 2 per cent, and by a further 2 per cent with each additional full year. The maximum is 50 per cent from 30 years (§ 57 Tax Act). After an inheritance, the years count from the last purchase, usually your parents'; read what applies when you sell an inherited house.

Yes. If, say, you sell your house at 70 to live on the proceeds, you can apply for a lower rate, the pension rate (Rentensatz). It applies if you sell because of age or disability, the property makes up more than a quarter of your assets and the proceeds serve your retirement provision.

The rate is then based not on the whole gain at once, but on the amount that would flow each year as a pension. This makes the rate lower (§ 58(3) Tax Act). It is possible only once in ten years and, under the tax office's practice, from age 58.

Neither our calculator nor the canton's online calculator takes the pension rate into account. If it applies to you, the figure above may be too high.

The market value (Verkehrswert) from 30 years ago then counts as the purchase price, unless you prove a higher purchase price (§ 55(4) Tax Act). The market value is what the property was worth on the market at the time. If in doubt, the tax office estimates it itself. From 31 years of ownership, you enter this value in the calculator yourself.