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Sheet metal for the climate: Juso wants the super-rich to inherit

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The Juso popular initiative calls for taxation of large donations and inheritances in order to use the revenues to finance the ecological restructuring of the economy.

The initiative “For a social climate policy – fairly financed by taxes (Initiative for a Future)” was submitted on Thursday in Bern with more than 140,000 signatures, as Juso Switzerland announced. It calls for inheritances and donations to be taxed at 50 percent, with a tax exemption of 50 million francs.

Revenues of approximately 6 billion francs per year are expected. They could be used to expand renewable energy sources, retrain programs for workers in climate-damaging industries, and massively expand public transportation.

More about the Juso initiative
Rich people should give up half!
Juso initiative on the home stretch
Mäder against the 99% initiative
“Juso wants to introduce super tax”
Juso with a new initiative
Rich heirs must give half!
This applies in the cantons
Everyone who inherits has to pay taxes, right?
For the benefit of the climate
Juso calls for a global tax on the rich

The referendum is supported by the SP and the Greens. The committee includes the co-presidium of the SP and the Green National Council members Léonore Porchet (VD) and Katharina Prelicz-Huber (ZH). (SDA)

Source:Blick

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