VAT to increase 0.7% to finance 13th pension payment

https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/altersvorsorge-fuer-13-ahv-rente-soll-mehrwertsteuer-0-7-prozentpunkte-steigen

Posted by bedberner

7 Comments

  1. Congrats on the wealthiest group of the country for having successfully convinced the majority to give them a raise.

    But why stop here? There’s still a lot to do:

    * Reduce the real estate tax for individuals owning their own house. Some of them are paying nearly 1,000CHF tax and mortgage interest a month for a mere 160m2 house, and it’s 10 minutes away from the center.
    * Make it mandatory for young parents to give money to the grand parents baby sitting the kids (this is a real request from some elderly people)
    * Special subsidized rates for senior traveling: some of them can only go abroad 10 weeks a year due to the high cost, one should be able to travel at least 15 weeks a year when retired.

    Obviously I’m joking (partly), but it would have made much more sense to have a targeted raise, rather than a general one.

  2. swagpresident1337 on

    Or in other words: VAT increases by almost 10%

    Everyone predicted this.

    But it‘s still better than more ahv contrbutions from your salary at least…

  3. On the bright side, we will have again a cool number for VAT. it was double 7 before, I was so upset that they increased it to 8.1. Now, with an increase of another 0.7 – it will be 8.8 – double 8, beautiful

  4. I feel like old people have no idea how difficult it is for young families today.

    That entire generation is just incredibly selfish.