Compensation office · Appenzell Innerrhoden
Ausgleichskasse Appenzell Innerrhoden
The compensation office for households in Appenzell Innerrhoden
If you employ a cleaner, nanny or carer in Appenzell Innerrhoden, you register them with AKAI. Here is what you need: contact details, registration route and costs, and what we experienced with the office ourselves.
Contact
- Address
- Ausgleichskasse Appenzell Innerrhoden
Poststrasse 9, 9050 Appenzell - Phone
- +41 71 788 18 30
- info@akai.ch
- Website
- www.akai.ch
- Online portal
- connect
How to register
AKAI uses the federal form 318.147. You fill it in online. At the end, AKAI must be selected as the recipient.
Open the registration form ↗- Deadline: within one month of the first working day.
- The confirmation with your settlement number then arrives by post.
- Accident insurance: AKAI offers the simplified procedure plus. You must choose it explicitly when you register.
What the office costs
Admin fee: 2.7 % of the AHV/IV/EO contributions.
On CHF 10,000 annual wage that is about CHF 28.62 a year.
For comparison: across the 26 offices the same amount ranges from CHF 14.84 to CHF 53.00. Compare all offices →
- Family allowance contribution: 1.6 % of the wage, paid by you as the employer.
- Child allowance: CHF 245 per child and month.
- Education allowance: CHF 298 per child and month.
During the year
- You report wages through the connect portal or by post.
- Annual declaration: by 30 January for the previous year. The office then invoices the contributions.
Our experience with AKAI
What we learned filling in the forms, from the office's own information and documents, and with our customers. Always with date and source.
Form tested
Registration through the federal form
We went through the federal online form 318.147 page by page. The form does not yet ask for your employee's details: these follow with the wage declaration.
Source: Clino's own walkthrough of the form, 12 July 2026
Form tested
Your own AHV number is checked
On the «Adressen» page the form asks for your own AHV number and checks it straight away against your date of birth. If the pair does not match, you cannot continue. The number is on your health insurance card.
Source: Clino's own walkthrough of the form, 12 July 2026
Form tested
The PDF on akai.ch
The forms page on akai.ch also lists, under «Beitragsbezug», the PDF «Anmeldung für Hausdienst Arbeitgebende». It contains no questions on accident insurance or the pension fund. If you use this PDF, you arrange both separately.
Source: Clino's own check of the akai.ch forms page, 29 July 2026
Have your registration with AKAI prepared
Clino prepares the contract, the registration and the payslips and goes through every step with you. 30 days free, then CHF 19.90 a month, cancel anytime.
Frequently asked questions about AKAI
How do I contact AKAI?
By phone on +41 71 788 18 30, by post to Poststrasse 9, 9050 Appenzell. By email to info@akai.ch.
How do I register my household employee with AKAI?
AKAI uses the federal form 318.147. You fill it in online. At the end, AKAI must be selected as the recipient. Deadline: within one month of the first working day. Accident insurance: AKAI offers the simplified procedure plus. You must choose it explicitly when you register.
What does AKAI cost?
Admin fee: 2.7 % of the AHV/IV/EO contributions. On CHF 10,000 annual wage that is about CHF 28.62 a year.
What should I have ready for the registration?
Your own AHV number and date of birth, which the form checks against each other, an IBAN for refunds and an estimate of the wages. Your employee's details are only needed for the wage declaration.
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