16 cantons have planned in their implementation of the AHV-control template improvements for natural persons, especially for families. This shows a current Overview of the conference of cantonal Finance Directors. With the list, the cantons are trying to support the AHV-control-template of the Federal government. Their previous project, USR III failed in 2017 at the ballot box clearly, because it was criticized as too business-friendly and tax.
Bern now wants to increase deductions for health insurance premiums, and for the care and supervision of children, of Schaffhausen, is planning a tax credit of 240 francs per child. The big most generous solution offered by Basel-city, where higher family allowances and bonuses subsidies and a tax reduction for natural persons account for 150 million francs. Do not compensate the cantons of Zurich, Aargau, Graubünden, Thurgau, as well as most of the Central Swiss cantons.
SP threatens also in cantons
With the tendency of SP-President Christian Levrat is satisfied. “Very many cantons have come to good solutions, because the financial Directors of the SP and the trade unions to the table,” he says, the winner of the tax vote in 2017. A Persil ticket, the SP is not granted to the cantons. “The Federal reform of the cantonal reactions must be balanced,” says Levrat. “We will assess every submission and take the Referendum, if it is necessary.”
the SP has Fought, for example, the first Bernese project that was rejected in November 2018, of the voting citizens. In the second version, the government halved the failures of 75 million Swiss francs. Three-quarters of which should come from natural persons, a broad reduction in corporate tax rates, the government dispensed with. A balancing act the SP makes in Solothurn, Switzerland: Against the cantonal tax law has taken the Referendum. To vote on 19. May as the national template, the SP Yes.
“The hole is the same size”
Unimpressed, Regula Rytz, President of the Greens, who have taken the Referendum against the Federal bill. “The population has not rejected the USR III due to the lack of social compensation measures, but due to the high loss of tax revenue,” she says. “The financial hole in the cantons and the municipalities will be the tax template is almost equal.”
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A compilation of the Finance Department shows that the current template is halved, the loss of tax revenue at the Federal, almost. In the case of the cantons, however, they sink only minim of 1.5 to approximately 1.4 billion Swiss francs. Against higher child allowances or premiums subsidies would have to object to the Green nothing says Rytz: “But to the cantons nasty Surprises waiting if you are not able to Finance the compensatory measures due to the loss of tax revenue.” The Green-President refers to the Canton of Lucerne, had to save for a tax reduction for companies and, among other things, a week of school line.
A study by the Federal government, however, shows that the state’s coffers with the tax template entries, not empty, but thanks to Companies and higher economic growth is likely to be full. In the middle scenario, the revenue for all the state divisions to rise to 1.5 billion Swiss francs. Rytz holds the illusory: “Other countries are lowering their taxes also, Switzerland will lose control of the substance.”
municipalities “very satisfied”
The community Association does not share this criticism. “We are very pleased,” says President Hannes Germann. The Schaffhausen-based SVP of the Council of States has written a letter to the members, in which he extols the AHV-tax template as a “plus point for the municipalities”. It was of great concern that the authorities are “actively working for a Yes”.
in 2017, warned many of the local holes in the coffers and contributed to the Failure of the CTR III, which Germann had supported. The new control template now contains a clause to take into account that the municipalities in the implementation. This happens in almost all cantons, such as the list of financial Director of the conference shows also. It is a very positive picture emerges, says Germann. “It was worth it to go to a second round. In retrospect, I am glad that the USR III didn’t come through.”
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 05.04.2019, 22:22 PM
