Graubuenden Communes Sketch a Second-Home Tax They Do Not Yet Have

CHUR - Mayors from Engadine communes and the Davos hinterland met in Chur to sketch what a new cantonal tax on second homes could look like if the federal decree passes later in the year. They want revenue. They also want the Basel dentist who owns a chalet to keep buying at the butcher.

Many mountain communes have more cold beds than schoolchildren. Taxing those beds harder is popular until the bakery's winter customers vanish.

A vote with snow still on the roof

The federal text is not yet a campaign in every valley. By August it will be. Our later October report is that meeting with invoices attached.