Swiss FinMin Floats Idea of Local Tax Cuts for High Earners: NZZ

Jan. 16, 2022, 9:12 AM UTC

Switzerland’s finance minister said some cantons will consider lowering taxes paid by high-earners in a bid to keep the Alpine nation attractive to international business after a minimum 15% global corporate tax rate was approved.

“I could well imagine that some cantons will flatten out the tax progression a bit in order to become more attractive for high-income employees,” Ueli Maurer said in an interview with newspaper NZZ am Sonntag.

Switzerland, long attractive to multinationals in part because of low corporate taxes, said this month it would implement a minimum rate of 15% by 2024 as part of a 140-country ...



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