The cantonal implementation of the tax reform of the Federal government (tax template 17) is not coupled to allowances in the Canton of Zurich, with increases of children and education. The Parliament rejected on Monday in the first reading the appropriate applications of SP and EDU, .
The social Democrats demanded in a minority request an increase of the allowances to 50 francs a month. The EDU wanted the child allowance increase to 100 Swiss francs. Currently, the children’s Supplement is as 200 francs up to the end of the twelfth year of life, and 250 francs, then.
this control template is at the ballot box, only a majority, if you believe that a social compensation leg, argued the SP. The have shown that votes in other counties already. The application is also modest, in the Canton of Zurich will pay today supplements one of the deepest children.
The EDU wanted to be with your application of your positioning as a family party and requested to use a part of the company “saved profits” for families.
mixing of tax and family policies
The question of family support, the parties split in the left as in the right of the political spectrum. While on the right is the EDU with your request insulated, on the left of the Green against the concern.
SVP, such as Green criticized the mixing of tax and family policy. The Greens pointed out that they had used in the case of the tax reform on the Federal level, for a separation of the two areas.
The FDP, the legal, the application does not compensate for the whole population and not even for a majority, but only for families with children of a certain age. The BDP, spoke of an “absolute injustice”, and also pointed to the low tax rates for natural persons in the Canton of Zurich.
financial Director Ernst Stocker (SVP) referred to other cantons. They had decided to much larger tax cuts than the Canton of Zurich. Without the family, the Zurich tax template allowances, therefore, “measured and reasonable”. (fal/sda)
Created: 25.02.2019, 18:34 PM