A dream of a chalet, Goms valley, canton Valais: affordable taxes, if you can find work
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A franc is a franc is – maybe a smaller or larger Swiss franc depending on where you live in Switzerland and what you pay in taxes. The federal government Wednesday 14 April published the latest table of tax rates for every commune in the country. If you’re single, living in Bern and you make CHF80,000 you can expect to pay 13.26 percent of your income in taxes. If you move to Zurich that will fall to 10.12 percent. Better yet, Walchwil in canton Zug: 6.42 percent.
One less place to change in a hurry - Swisscom to close phone booths
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swisscom wants to close down little-used phonebooths around Switzerland, reports Swiss-German weekly Sonntagszeitung. There are still about 8,100 phone booths on public land, but many are not used more than once or twice a week. This is down from 12,900 in 1998, when Swisscom was still legally obliged to maintain at least one phone booth in each commune, no longer the case.
A good site for basic information about Swiss communes – phones, addresses, communal tax rate and more – is the official communes site, communal.ch. It’s easy to use and is in English as well as the official Swiss languages.
