Straight answers about how Kurtaxe works and how this site is built.
Kurtaxe (also called taxe de séjour or tassa di soggiorno, depending on the region) is a per-person, per-night visitor's tax charged in many Swiss tourist communes. It is set and collected at the commune or resort level, not nationally — which is why the rate and rules differ from one town to the next, sometimes even between neighbouring communes.
Overnight visitors staying in paid accommodation — hotels, holiday flats, and short-term rentals — typically pay it as a line item on top of the room or nightly rate. The accommodation provider (including a host renting out a flat) is usually the one responsible for collecting it from guests and remitting it to the commune or tourism office.
Switzerland has no federal tourist tax. Each commune (there are roughly 2,100 of them) sets its own rate through its own regulation, which is why rates on this site range from about CHF 1 to nearly CHF 8 per person per night depending on where you look.
No — treat every figure here as a well-sourced starting point, not a final answer. Rates are re-checked against each commune's own published source on a weekly schedule, but a commune can change its regulation faster than that. Always confirm with the commune's tourism office or Gemeinde/commune administration before pricing a listing or filing a return.
It means we haven't yet found a source we're confident enough in to publish a number for that commune. Rather than guess, we show it as pending until a reliable source is confirmed.
A scheduled process re-visits each commune's published source page weekly and re-extracts the figures. If a figure hasn't actually changed, nothing is touched. See the About page for the full methodology.
Yes — this currently covers 18 of Switzerland's roughly 2,100 communes, chosen because they account for the large majority of short-term rental and hotel activity in Switzerland. Get in touch and it can be added once a reliable source is confirmed for it.