What is the municipal tax multiplier in Mels?

Mels applies a municipal tax multiplier of 125% of the simple cantonal tax, according to Federal Tax Administration data for 2025.

Is Mels an expensive municipality for taxes?

By municipal multiplier, Mels ranks 62 among the least taxed of 75 municipalities in canton St. Gallen.

Taxes in Mels — municipal multiplier

Position within the canton

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

No. 62 of 75

125 %

Balgach · 61 %Wartau · 145 %

Cantonal median: 115 %

That is 10 points above the median for canton St. Gallen.

The canton’s least taxed municipality is Balgach, at 61%.

The canton's extremes

The municipalities that bound the cantonal scale.

Lowest taxed

61 %

Balgach

Highest taxed

145 %

Wartau

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 Mels.

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