cantons of Switzerland (Swiss cantons)

The cantons can introduce relief on the capital tax levied annually on equity capital. The introduction of statutory provisions in relation to the tax consequences of companies (or business functions) entering Switzerland (full tax-free step-up). The extension of foreign tax credit provisions to Swiss branches of ...

When a 75-year-old from the Swiss canton of Thurgau was slapped with a 700-franc traffic fine recently, he took the unusual step of deciding to go behind ... But the experience of the minimum-security prison did leave the 75-year-old wondering whether the prison regime in Switzerland is tough enough ...

In some parts of Switzerland welfare payments are effectively loans that must be repaid when the recipient's financial situation improves. ... According to the Aargauer Zeitung, a welfare recipient in the commune of Klingnau in the canton of Aargau received a bill of 173,000 francs after he came into some ...

M29 is thought to have migrated to Switzerland from Italy in 2016. Photo: Hunting inspectorate of canton Bern. They now believe the bear could now be in the Melch valley in the canton of Obwalden after a forest worker came across his tracks on Tuesday morning. M29 is thought to have been born in Italy in ...

But the Swiss federal court then overturned the ruling, arguing less frequent bells at night made little difference to noise pollution levels and that this ringing of church bells was a local tradition. Now a similar sleep-centred dispute is simmering away in Hofstetten in the canton of Solothurn, Swiss daily the ...

If, as expected, higher tax cantons - many of which have a high proportion of foreign company HQs - are forced to reduce rates as a result of the reforms, Switzerland would remain an attractive location. KPMG doubts that competitor countries, such as Ireland, have room to reduce their rates much lower.

The district with the most organic farmland is Bernina (83%) in Graubunden, and the one with the least is Ouest Lausannois (0%) in Vaud. This map shows organic percentages by district. Average farm size in Switzerland in 2016 was 20.1 hectares. Organic farms were on average larger at 22.4 hectares, ...

On 21 March 2018, the Swiss government finally published the draft bill for the Swiss corporate tax reform package, the Tax Proposal 17 (TP 17; ... of effective overall corporate income tax rates in many Swiss cantons to about 12% to 14% will ensure Switzerland's place ahead of other European locations.

Gondo in the Swiss canton of Valais. Photo: AFP. "What we are doing is very much like the gold rush back in the day," Alpine Mining's 26-year-old chief executive Ludovic Thomas told AFP, his voice barely audible over the din from the machines behind him. He was standing in the company's main high-tech ...

The head of the Swiss Post distribution centre in Daillens, canton Vaud, told Swiss public radio, RTS, that the contract offered no preferential treatment to Amazon, with terms and conditions similar to those for other online businesses such as Germany's Zalando. Jean-Gabriel Meylan added that the centre ...

More than a year after the rejection of the Corporate Tax Reform III, the Swiss Federal Council released a revised bill on corporate taxation on 21 March ... the cantons to implement an R&D super-deduction of up to an additional 50% of business-related costs for R&D activities performed in Switzerland.

“No one can tell me I am not Swiss anymore,” Holten told The Local, reacting to the news she had finally been granted citizenship. “I have lived in Switzerland since I was eight and my children are Swiss. Although I have Dutch origins back in my past and these are not unimportant, I have always felt Swiss,” ...

That means the disposable net income of low-tax Zug is nearly one and a half times the Swiss average of €40,456. It also puts the canton clearly ahead of fellow low-tax cantons Schwyz where the figure is €55,411 and Nidwalden (€51,449). In Zurich, average disposable net income is €46,019, making it the ...

The amount of snow in the mountains this winter and rainfall on the lowlands could have serious consequences for lakes and rivers in Switzerland this ... “Devastating flooding” is a possibility, canton Bern's head of property insurance Ueli Winzenried told the media, saying he was extremely concerned by ...

Switzerland is one of the world's wealthiest nations with a long tradition of democratic rule: a special brand of democracy with numerous referenda and a federation of highly autonomous cantons, or provinces. They're all held together in what the Swiss call 'Willensnation'. It literally means a 'nation by will', ...

They did so by rejecting a move that would have left the final decision on all matters school curriculum-related to voters. The results in the two cantons means German-speaking Switzerland is now a step closer to have a unified school curriculum as is the case in the French-speaking part of the country.

Under Switzerland's federal structure, education falls under the jurisdiction of each of its 26 cantons. Over the past few years, the cantonal education heads drew up common syllabi – one for German-speaking cantons and another for French ones – after Swiss voters approved a constitutional article to ...