Moving and taxes
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Municipality hub
Luzein
Luzein connects 10 postcode pages in Graubünden. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 10
- Population
- 2'048
- Streets
- 173
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in Luzein
The municipality includes 3 split-postcode cases and 11 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
7223
Low taxesBuchen im Prättigau
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7224
Low taxesPutz
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7242
Low taxesLuzein
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7243
Low taxesPany
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7244
Low taxesGadenstätt
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7245
Low taxesAscharina
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7246
Low taxesSt. Antönien
- Address share
- 100.0%
- Population
- 223
- Effective tax rate
- 10.69%
7222
Lunden
- Address share
- 40.8%
- Population
- 250
- Effective tax rate
- 11.96%
7226
Stels
- Address share
- 18.5%
- Population
- 141
- Effective tax rate
- 11.96%
7240
Küblis
- Address share
- 10.1%
- Population
- 96
- Effective tax rate
- 12.02%
How this municipality cluster behaves
Luzein connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 8'553 total tax, or 10.69% effective.
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