St Gallen SMEs Form a Practical No Camp on the Inheritance Tax

ST GALLEN - Owner-managers in the eastern canton said succession plans for machine shops, printers and food firms cannot absorb a 50 percent claim on estates above CHF 50 million without a sale. Some of those firms are near the line if you count property and patents together. That, they said, is the point.

Juso answers that the threshold is high and the climate need is higher. In St Gallen the climate need is not denied. The instrument is.

A canton that likes to count

Eastern voters have killed elegant ideas before. They will not need a rally. They will need a Sunday.