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The deputy for the radical left Hadrian Buclin will file on Tuesday at the Grand Council a request for a parliamentary commission of inquiry (CEP) to shed light on the Vaudois tax shield system. The canton would have subcontrolled rich taxpayers for 13 years.
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06 May 2025 – 11:33
(Keystone-ATS) “Today I file a request for a parliamentary committee of inquiry (CEP). I have more than 40 signatures. I will briefly present it to the Grand Council next week, “Buclin told Keystone-ATS. He had recently explained in media to want to do it “not only because the problem is serious, but because it took place over a long period and exceeds the Dittli affair”.
He had to bring together at least 20 signatures for such a request to be taken into account by the Grand Council office. So far, he said he had only thirteen, from his group together on the left & pop (EP) and some scattered voices.
-A statement Tuesday morning before the plenum of the leader of the Socialist group Sébastien Cala released the counter: “The PS will support the request of a CEP (…). We want all the light to be shed on the tax shield. Current practices must also be audited, “he said. He took the opportunity to criticize the Council of State and its “intolerable way” to communicate on this file.
Long processus
Just before him, the president of the finance committee (Cofin), the PLR Florence Gross, had also spoke to denounce the way in which the rights opinions of two experts on the tax shield could have been published in the press, while the Cofin itself had only had a very brief access, “an hour during a consultation”.
“Since April 29, the Chancellery of State has sent us these rights opinions, which satisfy us. From now on, the Cofin is determined to shed light on the course and the consequences of the tax shield mechanism, “said Ms. Gross.
Since its introduction in 2009, the cantonal administration would have poorly applied its legislation on this most wealthy tax cap. She would then have slowed to rectify the shot. Difficult to quantify losses for the State, but potentially tens of millions of francs.
The Grand Council office will now impart a period to the Council of State for it to be positioned in writing on this request for a CEP. It is only then that the subject will be subject to debate in Parliament, for yes or not launching such a commission.
