Switzerland has voted to introduce individual taxation, backing one of the biggest changes to the country’s tax system in decades and scrapping rules that critics say penalise married couples where both partners work.
The reform will replace Switzerland’s longstanding system of joint taxation, under which spouses must combine their income and file a single return. In a progressive tax system, that structure often pushed married couples into higher tax brackets than unmarried partners with similar earnings — a distortion widely known as the wedding or “marriage penalty”.
Nearly 54 per cent of voters were in favour of the change, according to preliminary official estimates on Sunday.
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