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Multinationals in Switzerland should pay more tax according to the Bundesrat and the parliament. The reason: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has agreed on a minimum tax and Switzerland must follow suit – otherwise foreign countries will be allowed to collect part of the taxes from Swiss-based companies.
The opposition comes from the left: SP, Greens and the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB) do not criticize the higher taxes, but they do criticize the distribution of the new tax revenue. For the time being, 75 percent of the resulting income will go to the cantons and 25 percent to the federal government. We will vote on it in Switzerland on 18 June.
Keller-Sutter v. Badran
Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter (59) and SP National Councilor Jacqueline Badran (61) crossed swords on Friday evening in the SRF political program “Arena”.
Surprisingly, the comrades send Badran into the race. Because: The Zurich woman praised the benefits of the proposal in a fiery speech at the delegates’ meeting last February. That’s why she asked permission to vote.
And she literally said, “Whatever slogan we choose, I can’t go into the arena with a clear conscience and vehemently argue for a no.”
Jungfreisinn finds Badran’s performance ‘hypocritical’
Badran’s performance in the “Arena” was one clear word from the political opponent: “hypocritical”. Matthias Müller (30), chairman of the Jungfreisinnigen, says: “Ms. Badran said she could not in good conscience stand for a no, partly because there were good reasons for the OECD proposal. Now she is doing it and playing as a star witness against Federal Councilman Keller-Sutter.”
Everything she says on the show is void, not fair and dishonest. “The SP is once again about cheap polemics. It turns out to be a sham,” says Müller.
An argument that Badran does not accept. She says she wanted to show the ambivalence between tax harmonization, which she had been fighting for decades, and the unfortunate distribution of money between the cantons and the lack of earmarking for the benefit of “normal people”.
“The more I thought about it, the more urgent the no became”
At the time, it still assumed that the distribution among the cantons could then be adjusted at the legislative level. “It has not been thought through to the end. Because: if we vote yes, the parliament will say that the population has approved the distribution key and that a change is no longer possible. » The National Council originally wanted a 50:50 distribution of tax revenue of the OECD.
Badran says the more she thought about it, the more urgent the no became. “So I’m completely at peace with myself.” (Okay)
Source:Blick
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