What is the municipal tax multiplier in Sarnen?

Sarnen applies a municipal tax multiplier of 386% of the simple cantonal tax, according to Federal Tax Administration data for 2025.

Is Sarnen an expensive municipality for taxes?

By municipal multiplier, Sarnen ranks 1 among the least taxed of 7 municipalities in canton Obwalden.

Taxes in Sarnen — municipal multiplier

Position within the canton

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

No. 1 of 7

386 %

Sarnen · 386 %Lungern · 525 %

Cantonal median: 475 %

That is 89 points below the median for canton Obwalden.

The canton's extremes

The municipalities that bound the cantonal scale.

Lowest taxed

386 %

Sarnen

Highest taxed

525 %

Lungern

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 Sarnen.

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