LAUSANNE - Women's organisations in Vaud used Saturday stalls to argue that joint taxation still punishes second earners, often wives, once income crosses a modest line. Similar tables appeared in Zurich and Bern. The Federal Act on Individual Taxation is the only item on 8 March that is a referendum on a law already passed by parliament.
Cantonal tax directors have not hidden the cost. Assessing spouses separately means new forms, new deductions and a long parallel run of old and new systems. That warning may move some bourgeois voters more than the fairness argument.
A kitchen-table yes
Polls have shown a narrow lead for a yes. The stakes write-up sits in our March preview. The morning-after IT story is already on the calendar as 9 March.