And now the end of the Swiss adventure, and the start of the Australian, is really getting close. With exactly 1 month to go till my departure, today I deregistered as a Swiss resident.
To do so you have to first go to the 'Residents Office', and report that you are leaving. Then you have to walk across the street to the 'Tax Office' and say that you are leaving. They will get you a bunch of papers for your final tax declaration, and want you to make a deposit just in case you don't pay your tax after you already left. I refused this, and they still let me go. Not that they have a choice. Why wouldn't I pay that ittybitty tax anyway. I'd like to be able to return here for holidays and such! And then you have to walk back across the street to the first mentioned office again to get deliver a document the Tax Office gave you, and to get a document (see picture) that confirms you deregistered. Why on earth they can't just put this stuff at the same desk with the same person...? That's Swiss bureaucracy for you.
Anyway, in the end the final document cost 30 Swiss Franks, and then I was allowed to go.
Anyway, in the end the final document cost 30 Swiss Franks, and then I was allowed to go.