BERN - The Federal Act on Individual Taxation would stop treating married couples as a single tax unit. Women's groups call that overdue. Some bourgeois voters hear a fairness argument they can accept. Finance directors hear staffing plans and a decade of parallel rules.
Unlike the initiatives on the same Sunday, this is a referendum against a law parliament has already passed. A no would keep today's joint system. A yes starts a project, not a new form next April.
Who is quietly for it
Employers who want second earners back at full hours have an economic interest that does not always appear on podiums. The morning-after software story is here.