Voters Reject Civic Duty and Climate Inheritance Tax
Two left-leaning ideas met a Sunday electorate that was not in the mood for new duties or a 50 percent tax on large estates.
November 2025
18 posts in the November 2025 file.
Sunday, 30 November 2025
Vote Sunday Opens Quietly With Two Left Texts on the Paper
The country voted on a new duty and a new tax. The queues suggested it had already voted by post.
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Aargau Owners Spend the Last Midweek Making Succession Calls
The last instrument is not an ad. It is an uncle in another canton with a stamp.
Tuesday, 25 November 2025
Postal Ballots Peak as November's Double Initiative Hits the Last Days
The envelopes do not leak. The campaigns, standing in the rain, pretend they might.
Monday, 24 November 2025
Basel Pharma Town Treats the Inheritance Tax as a Headquarters Risk
The cluster does not need a yacht argument. It has payrolls on both banks of the Rhine.
Saturday, 22 November 2025
Final Polls Show Two Clear Nos Taking Shape for 30 November
The remaining argument is turnout, not direction. Direction looks settled.
Thursday, 20 November 2025
Federal Council Repeats Its Double No as Vote Week Comes Into View
The government has one job left on these texts: say no again, without crowing.
Tuesday, 18 November 2025
Geneva Remains a Yes Pocket for the Climate Tax, Not a Majority Engine
A yes on the Right Bank is real. It is also not 26 cantons.
Monday, 17 November 2025
St Gallen SMEs Form a Practical No Camp on the Inheritance Tax
The no camp in the east does not need a yacht. It needs a cousin who already sits in the firm.
Friday, 14 November 2025
Women Voters Split on Civic Duty as Equality Meets a New Obligation
A duty sold as fairness can sound like a new chore. That reading is spreading faster than the campaign like.
Thursday, 13 November 2025
Zurich Tenant Groups Back the Climate Tax and Gain Little Traction
The flyers connected palaces to rents. The doorsteps connected everything to the health bill.
Wednesday, 12 November 2025
Geneva's Winter UN Calendar Crowds the Lakeshore Again
November is supposed to be quiet. International Geneva did not get the memo.
Tuesday, 11 November 2025
Climate Inheritance Tax Also Trails as Business Ads Land
A climate label does not rescue a tax that sounds like a raid on the shop.
Monday, 10 November 2025
First November Polls Show Civic Duty Trailing Heavily
An equality argument is not the same as a majority. The first poll made that rude and clear.
Friday, 7 November 2025
Family Firms Say a Climate Inheritance Tax Hits Factories, Not Yachts
The campaign needs a villain with a boat. The opposition needs a factory with a nameplate.
Thursday, 6 November 2025
Army Committees Split From Civic Groups on the Duty Initiative
Everyone is for service. Nobody means the same timetable, uniform or budget.
Tuesday, 4 November 2025
Young Socialists Take the Climate Inheritance Tax on a City Tour
The threshold is CHF 50 million. The argument is whether that number is a castle or a factory.
Monday, 3 November 2025
Civic Duty Posters Go Up and Immediately Meet the Army Argument
The poster shows a young woman with a toolkit. The reply shows a recruit with a rifle. Both are simplifications. Both will run until the 30th.