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Federal finances · Accounts 2025

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87.6bn CHF of spending

The whole Confederation, not one department: every department, authority and court together, the extraordinary budget included. Financing statement of the Federal Finance Administration.

The Confederation’s financesWho spends how much? ↓

Who spends the 84.3 billion · Accounts 2024

  • EDA 3.9 %
  • EDI 25.1 %
  • EJPD 5.8 %
  • VBS 8.1 %
  • EFD 24.8 %
  • WBF 15.4 %
  • UVEK 17.6 %
  • Authorities and courts 0.7 %

The dashed line stands at CHF 84.3 billion. The segments add up to 85.4 billion, because services between departments (1.1 billion) are booked by both. See the reconciliation

Departments, authorities and courts

Spending 2024 as the federal accounts state it. Subsidies are part of it. Together with the elimination, the eight cards make up the Confederation’s total.

Each card breaks its spending down into own, transfer, financial and investment spending (CHF million); together they make up the large figure. «From other departments» is part of own spending. The largest offices are ordered by own plus transfer spending. * The subsidies come from the subsidy database, not from the accounts. They are mostly transfers, partly investment contributions, and therefore not an arithmetic part of transfer spending. Where they exceed it, a star is shown.

Reconciliation · State accounts 2024, volume 1B

From the departments to the Confederation as a whole

Why the departments together spend more than the Confederation

Federal offices charge each other for services such as office rent and IT. When one department buys from another, both book it: one as spending, the other as income. Within a department this is already netted out, between departments it is not. The Federal Finance Administration takes these amounts out again in the column «Elimination»: 1’090 million CHF in 2024.

CHF millionCurrent spendingInvestment spendingSpendingof which services from other departmentsSubsidies 2025
Foreign AffairsEDA3’216793’295103–
Home AffairsEDI21’0923421’126147–
Justice and PoliceEJPD4’769834’852163–
Defence, Civil Protection and SportVBS5’3881’4496’837384–
Federal Department of FinanceEFD20’26265020’91219–
Economic Affairs, Education and ResearchWBF12’69224712’93993–
Environment, Transport, Energy and CommunicationsUVEK12’0902’76214’85298–
Authorities and courts9 closings567557282–
Sum of the segments computed80’0765’30985’3851’089–
Elimination services between departments−1’090–−1’090−1’090
Confederation total78’9875’31084’297–
  • Segments and elimination = total ✓
  • Departments = volume 2 ✓
  • Authorities and courts = sum of the 9 closings ✓
  • Total = Confederation’s budget (84’297.1 CHF million) ✓

77 of 77 checks hold within the printed rounding. 2 rows stay open: the Finance Administration prints a dash there instead of a figure. Spending per row (current plus investment spending) and the sum of the segments are computed by schwur.ch; every other figure is printed.

Source: Federal Finance Administration, state accounts, Band 1B (Finanzbericht), «Einnahmen und Ausgaben nach Departementen», p. 51. Open the PDF at page 51 · Sources & coverage

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Source: Eidgenössische Finanzverwaltung EFV, retrieved 14.09.2026. Raw data

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