Transmission to cantons

The salary certificate is basically intended for the employee.

Some cantons also require employers to send a copy of the salary certificate directly to the cantonal tax administration.

These cantons can receive the salary certificate electronically via ELM. They can send them via the salary certificate. The delivery is automatically made only to the cantons for which the employers have to submit the salary certificate directly.

The cantonal tax administrations require the encrypted 2-D barcode for the automated reading of the salary certificate (scanning). The program library for printing the 2 D barcode on the salary certificate is carried out at the same time as the installation of the ELM transmitter version 4.0.

Notice:

When transmitting salary certificate with ELM, it may happen that an Error is displayed in the status, even though the file was successfully transmitted to the tax authorities.

This can happen, for example, if an employee has settled wage data in the reporting year (2023), but no cash flow has taken place and therefore no salary certificate would be created (no wage = no salary certificate).

The XML response file can be exported via the ELM support files and opened in a browser or with the editor to check which cantons were transmitted or which canton triggers the error. However, there is no need for action after the transmission, the cantons to be transmitted were supplied correctly.