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Is it time to remove the most unfair tax in the country or, on the contrary, will we offer a tax gift to a minority to the detriment of all? This is the question that the population will have to decide, called upon to decide on September 28 on the abolition of the rental value. Concretely, it is a revolution in the taxation of housing that is offered, directly affecting all 36% Swiss who have their own housing. The campaign was launched at the start of the week in Bern. She promises to be as short – six weeks – as inserts and will see two wide coalitions compete.
Favorable to the abolition of rental value, it was the bourgeois camp which first launched itself in the battle on Monday, during a press conference in the form of a force demonstration. Faced with the media, no less than eight stakeholders, including the UDC Zurichois Gregor Rutz, president of the Swiss HEV (the association of landowners), but also the Saint-Gallois centrist and boss of the peasants Markus Ritter or the former president of the Swiss Vert’liberals, the Zurichois Martin Bäumle, even though his party has not given a voting instruction.
