The Confederation wants to make savings and is looking for additional revenue. An idea is gaining ground: taxing third pillar assets more. The tax when receiving this retirement capital could double, or even quadruple in certain cases.
The tax advantages when you reach your third pillar in retirement could end, according to the expert report on federal finances presented last month. And this idea is favored by Karin Keller-Sutter, according to SonntagsZeitung. The big money maker is in fact looking for additional revenue to balance the Confederation’s budget.
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The left also says it is attracted by this project. “This measure will target the upper middle class and very high incomes more,” declares Valais national councilor Emmanuel Amoos.
With this measure, the Federal Council intends to gain 250 million francs in additional revenue per year.
A weakening of the retirement system?
This perspective is considered unfair by the right. For Michael Buffat, this reform would weaken the three-pillar system, the heart of old-age provision in Switzerland.
“If we no longer give tax advantages, people will be less encouraged to make payments and that endangers the system,” declared the UDC federal elected official on Sunday on the 7:30 p.m. broadcast of RTS.
For Emmanuel Amoos, even if, “for banks and insurance companies, it is certain that the third pillar is an absolutely phenomenal source of income”, it would be necessary “especially to strengthen the first pillar in Switzerland”.
TV report: Ainoha Ibarrola, Léandre Duggan and Rouven Gueissaz
Adaptation web: mera
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