What is the municipal tax multiplier in Emmetten?

Emmetten applies a municipal tax multiplier of 222% of the simple cantonal tax, according to Federal Tax Administration data for 2025.

Is Emmetten an expensive municipality for taxes?

By municipal multiplier, Emmetten ranks 8 among the least taxed of 11 municipalities in canton Nidwalden.

Taxes in Emmetten — municipal multiplier

Position within the canton

Scale of communal tax multipliers, from the canton's lowest-taxed municipality to its highest.

No. 8 of 11

222 %

Hergiswil (NW) · 134 %Wolfenschiessen · 250 %

Cantonal median: 200 %

That is 22 points above the median for canton Nidwalden.

The canton’s least taxed municipality is Hergiswil (NW), at 134%.

The canton's extremes

The municipalities that bound the cantonal scale.

Lowest taxed

134 %

Hergiswil (NW)

Highest taxed

250 %

Wolfenschiessen

Your actual tax burden

The multiplier does not tell you what you will pay: that depends on your income, family situation and deductions. The calculator gives the official FTA figure for Emmetten.

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