Vaud elected officials validate a 7% tax cut by 2027

Vaudois deputies adopted the 2025 cantonal budget on Tuesday, with a deficit reduced to 280 million francs. In the process, they approved a cumulative reduction of 7% in cantonal income tax by 2027. A vote which countered the initiative of economic circles which demanded a reduction of 12%. The initial project of the Council of State proposed a reduction of 5%, estimated to be difficult to exceed, at the risk of seeing cantonal finances confronted with austerity budgets subsequently, reports “Le Temps”. If the initiative is maintained, the Vaudois population will then have to decide between the 12% reduction and the project validated by the Grand Council.

After the vote on the budget, the Ensemble à Gauche party said it feared that state finances would be “in great difficulty in the future”, while the Greens were worried about an impact on “policies of struggle against global warming and social issues. As for the Vert’liberaux, they considered that “the loss is much greater than announced in a context where the Vaud population pays too many taxes”, and said they were waiting for “the Council of State to take measures accordingly “.

If the Vaudois PS welcomed, in a press release, the maintenance and strengthening of various public policies, it on the other hand regretted the escalation of tax cuts and also expressed its fears about the capacity of the State to deliver services and maintain mechanisms of social cohesion. Finally, the PLR ​​applauded a significant tax reduction, while also conceding that the budget had been “adopted with great concerns for the future”.