BERN - Cantonal tax administrations spent Monday explaining that a yes to individual taxation is the start of a project, not the end of a form. Married couples will at some point be assessed as two people. The software, the deductions and the communication will lag the slogan by years.
The cash counterproposal, accepted by 73 percent, was easier to celebrate and harder to feel. Notes and coins remain legal. Cards remain more common in cities.
Who wanted it
Women's groups that have long called the marriage penalty unfair treated the night as overdue. Finance directors treated it as a staffing plan. Both can be right.