Published on December 20, 2024 at 9:46 p.m.
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The abolition of the rental value tax which passed the parliamentary ramp on Friday in Berne does not only make people happy. Among which, the umbrella of tenants, Asloca. Its president, the socialist State Councilor Carlo Sommaruga, protests in the name of “unequal treatment with tenants”, and criticizes “the scandalous tax gifts offered to the richest owners”. However, “nothing has been done yet,” he emphasizes, recalling that the people will have the last word. As always when it comes to defining a new tax.
The referendum should go to the polls next June. A deadline that Carlo Sommaruga awaits with a certain serenity: “We see that the opposition is broad.” He cites “the cantons” and “the left”. Also “the construction sector”, whose craftsmen and unions should, according to him, be concerned about the pressure on renovation work – the latter no longer being deductible in the subscribed project. His final argument: “Parliament is mainly composed of owners. And the latest votes on the reform of the LPP and the tenancy law were the demonstration that when parliament wants to pass by force… it does not pass.
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