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The tax rate for all of St. Gallen’s municipalities has decreased by 9.2 percent in the last five years and by 13.9 percent in the last ten years. 49 of the 77 municipalities of St. Gallen lowered the tax rate for 2020 in the Crown year: the municipality of Wartau wears the red lantern with the highest tax rate of 160 percent.
The old part of the village of Balgach.
Wartau, the community of seven villages at the foot of the Gonzens in Werdenberg, has the highest tax rate in the canton of St. Gallen at 160 percent. The Rheintaler Rebgemeinde Balgach has the lowest after a reduction in the tax rate of five percent; with 72 percentage points, Mörschwil (tax rate of 75 percent) ranks second. In the most fiscally efficient municipality of the canton, municipal taxes are less than half that of the municipality with the highest tax, as the current assessment of the cantonal tax office shows. If the total tax burden is compared with federal, cantonal and municipal taxes, the relative differences between municipalities are smaller.
