Valais / Wallis legal data from official sources, structured for AI and legaltech.
Access 692+ Valais cantonal tax-administration materials from the Canton of Valais's official portal (vs.ch), in both French and German. Today's coverage is centred on the cantonal tax administration — the Service cantonal des contributions (French) and the Kantonale Steuerverwaltung (German, Oberwallis) — including withholding-tax circulars, tax scales, guides, forms, declarations, and administrative directives. Search Valais legal data directly or connect it to your AI agent, legaltech product or research workflow through Lawstronaut's API and MCP server. Every record is linked to its official source and structured in the same format used across more than 150 jurisdictions.
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What are the current inheritance and gift tax rates in the Canton of Valais, and who publishes them?
The applicable inheritance and gift tax rates in force from 1 January 2025 are set out in the Kantonale Steuerverwaltung's information sheet 'Erbschafts- und Schenkungssteuer, Geltende Steuersätze (ab 01.01.2025)', published on the cantonal portal vs.ch.
Source: Kantonale Steuerverwaltung — https://www.vs.ch/documents/508074/634794/Neu_Erbschafts-+und+Schenkungssteuer%2C+Geltende+Steuers%C3%A4tze+25.pdf/7df89189-7f65-3794-5f5b-fa4578d698db?t=1741961835667
Retrieved: 2026-08-02 · Version: 1 · Cited in-turn
The official Valais sources we cover
Lawstronaut collects Valais legal materials from the official Canton of Valais portal (vs.ch). Each record links back to its original source, with metadata such as issuing authority, publication date, legal link, portal, content type, and version where available. Current coverage is concentrated on the cantonal tax administration in both language regions; broader cantonal legislation and case law are candidates for expansion.
Source categories: the cantonal government portal (vs.ch) · the cantonal tax administration, French-speaking Valais (Service cantonal des contributions) · the cantonal tax administration, German-speaking Oberwallis (Kantonale Steuerverwaltung)
- Valais — Service cantonal des contributions (French, vs.ch)
- Wallis — Kantonale Steuerverwaltung (German, vs.ch)
Valais legal source types covered
Valais coverage today centres on cantonal tax-administration materials published on vs.ch in French and German. Primary cantonal legislation and case law are covered where available and are a natural next step for the source set.
Legislation & Regulations
Cantonal tax rules and administrative instruments — circulaires, directives, Weisungen, and Merkblätter — from the Service cantonal des contributions and the Kantonale Steuerverwaltung, taken directly from vs.ch. Broader cantonal legislation from the Recueil systématique valaisan / Walliser Gesetzessammlung is covered where available.
Legislative History
Grand Conseil / Grosser Rat parliamentary papers and cantonal amendment records are not yet part of the corpus; today's materials are administrative tax documents, each tied to its source.
Regulatory Guidance & Enforcement
Withholding-tax circulars (impôt à la source / Quellensteuer), tax scales and indexation notices, flat-rate deduction tables, inheritance and gift tax rate sheets, guides, and official forms (Déclaration / Steuererklärung) from the cantonal tax administration.
Case Law
Decisions of the Valais courts — the Tribunal cantonal du Valais / Kantonsgericht Wallis — are covered where available; cantonal case law is not currently a primary part of the Valais corpus.
One Valais legal data layer. Four ways to use it.
Lawstronaut API
Query Valais cantonal tax materials, circulars, directives, guides, forms, and government documents in French and German through a REST API. Use structured metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and version history to power legaltech products, compliance workflows, and internal research tools.
GET /v2/contents?iso=CH_VS&limit=20Lawstronaut MCP
Connect ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and other AI agents to Valais legal sources. Questions become live searches against the corpus and return citation-ready answers grounded in official Valais materials — deployable in minutes, with no integration work.
AI Agent Integration
Give your legal AI agent same-turn provenance: it retrieves current Valais materials — official source links, metadata, and full text — before generating an answer, with a citation and timestamp on every response.
Build with Lawstronaut
Build Valais legal and tax search, monitoring, compliance, research, and legal AI features without crawling, parsing, normalizing, and updating official sources yourself. We handle source discovery, ingestion, normalization, versioning, and change detection; you build the product.
What you can do with Valais legal data
- Retrieve legal metadata, full text, Markdown, source links, and original source files where available
- Filter by jurisdiction, portal, issuing authority, authority type, language, status, and dates
- Work across both language regions — French (Service cantonal des contributions) and German (Kantonale Steuerverwaltung, Oberwallis) — from one structured source
- Access official legal links for citation and audit trails — citation, timestamp, and source link returned in the same turn
- Track point-in-time versions and changes across Valais tax and government materials
- Run Horizon Scanning — track what changed in Valais cantonal tax practice, when, and where, without manual monitoring
- Connect AI agents to official Valais sources through MCP; use the API for search, monitoring, compliance, and AI ingestion workflows
Why Lawstronaut for Valais legal research
Valais legal and tax information is published across the cantonal government portal (vs.ch) in two languages, split between the French-speaking Service cantonal des contributions and the German-speaking Kantonale Steuerverwaltung of the Oberwallis. For humans, that means slow research through year-by-year circulars, tax scales, and forms in whichever language a document happens to be published. For AI systems, it's a bigger problem: fragmented source access, inconsistent formats, missing provenance, and weak citation trails.
Lawstronaut turns those sources into one structured legal data layer — source links, metadata, full text, versioning, and API/MCP access. Your product or agent retrieves the source document directly instead of relying on generic web search or unverified model memory. Every answer carries a citation, a timestamp, and a link to the official document — the provenance that makes a legal research platform defensible to auditors and regulators.
About Valais / Wallis legal coverage
Valais / Wallis is a bilingual Swiss canton — French-speaking in the Lower Valais and German-speaking in the Upper Valais (Oberwallis) — with its own cantonal constitution, legislation, and administration, operating within Switzerland's civil-law and federal system. Cantonal law is published in the Recueil systématique valaisan / Walliser Gesetzessammlung, and cantonal case law is issued by the Tribunal cantonal du Valais / Kantonsgericht Wallis. Lawstronaut's current Valais corpus is concentrated on the cantonal tax administration — the Service cantonal des contributions and the Kantonale Steuerverwaltung — with withholding-tax circulars, tax scales, guides, forms, and directives published in French and German.
Valais cantonal tax practice changes every year: withholding-tax circulars and indexation rates (for example, the cantonal index rising to 173% from 2025) are reissued as the tax period turns, inheritance and gift tax rate sheets are updated, and cantonal tax rules interact with federal law and inter-cantonal practice. Point-in-time data straight from the source is what keeps a Valais tax or legal answer correct today — telling one tax period from the next, with the right version and retrieval date attached.
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Legaltech companies
Build Valais legal and tax search, monitoring, drafting, compliance, and AI research features without maintaining your own legal source pipeline.
Compliance & GRC teams
Monitor Valais tax circulars, withholding-tax scales, and cantonal guidance across official sources in both languages — without a manual monitoring rota.
AI builders
Ground legal AI answers in official Valais tax text, source links, and metadata — answers that survive an auditor.
Internal legal & tax teams
Give lawyers, tax advisers, and payroll teams faster access to Valais sources through AI agents and internal tools, without hiring a researcher per canton.
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