What Ueli Maurer, Directors of his financial colleagues in the cantons regularly: your bills are massively better than the budget. 2018 is the better of the previously published 24 results about 2.3 billion Swiss francs.
This shows a compilation of the news Agency Keystone-SDA until the middle of April, well-known accounts. Only the cantons of Bern and neuchâtel, have not published their conclusion in 2018.
The 24 cantons have budgeted a slight decrease of 22.6 million francs. In their calculations, they conclude with a total income of 2,328 billion Swiss francs. This adds up to a better position compared to the budget of 2,351 billion Swiss francs.
Only the cantons of Obwalden and Jura for your fiscal year 2018 deficits of 29.1, or 1.3 million Swiss francs. The losses were, however, significantly lower than forecasted in the Budget. Obwalden expected a loss of 36 million Swiss francs, of the Jura, with around 6 million Swiss francs.
Who is the most blatant failed predictions made
of the total Of ten cantons, which had been budgeted in the red, ended its eight-part jet black. These are Geneva, Lucerne, Graubünden, Nidwalden, Uri, Appenzell-Innerrhoden, Glarus and Schaffhausen.
a Total of eight cantons (ZH, AG, BS, GE, SG, ZG, TI, SZ) recorded a triple-digit million profit for the year 2018. Most clearly in the Plus, the Canton of Zurich was 548 million Swiss francs, the lowest three-digit win, there were 107.4 million Swiss francs in the Canton of Schwyz.
The most blatant failed predictions of the cantons of Zurich, Geneva and Aargau were. Clearly in addition, Zurich was the most with a better position compared to the Budget to 494 million Swiss francs. Geneva, invoiced to 409 million francs, the Canton of Aargau to 299 million Swiss francs.
national Bank-effect
To the Surpluses resulted almost consistently significantly higher yields in the control . In the Canton of Graubünden, for example, so a lot of tax money on fins with about 800 million francs, never in the Canton of cash. The majority of cantons budgeted for in addition, the shares of the Federal tax too low.
“special effects” or “expected effects” also appear regularly in the reasons for the unexpectedly positive financial statements. In 2018, these were the grants of the Swiss national Bank, had doubled their profit distribution to the cantons. In some cantons, including Graubünden, were also refunds of Postbus Switzerland after the subsidy dizziness positive weight.
debt
The partial lucrative profits allow the cantons of significant investments to reduce. The Canton of Vaud, about reserved 30 million for the planned cancer research center in Lausanne, Grisons puts a lot of money for the pre-financing of the planned University centre in Chur to the high edge.
Often, the money blessing is also assigned to the reserves or for debt reduction. In Lucerne, the “debt free Canton indented” according to the financial Director Marcel Schwerzmann in range.
The healthy financial position of most of the cantons also reflected in the self-financing levels, some of which are well over 100 percent. The investment can be funded. One of the few big exceptions to this are the Canton of Obwalden, whose self-financing ratio is due to a structural deficit, minus 100 per cent.
potential for tax cuts
If the public sector is running financially well, the Call for a tax cut is not far away. The Canton of Zurich will discuss in December in the face of a Surplus in 2018. The Canton of Schwyz also sees potential down.
On the expenditure side, spending discipline is part of the recipe for success of the cantons. The authorities often give less money than budgeted, operating expenses suggests less to beech. Usually there are relief programs that develop in this area of their effect.
just As ritually, the warnings by the Fund will be made according to good qualifications waiting in front of a “deterioration” of the economic situation in the coming years, to take care of any desires in advance of the Wind out of the sails. To prove this, the cantons hold to their austerity programs and reforms.
Update 12.20 PM: the table was originally contained an error, it is corrected. (amc/sda)
Created: 15.04.2019, 10:48 PM
