The Road to Strong Federal Finances Raise taxes, cut expenses or ease on the debt brake? 16.10.2024, Michele Salvi, Jan Marty
Problematic Tax Benefits Summer Series on Federal Finances When the State Voluntarily Foregoes Revenue 30.08.2024, Samuel Rutz, Laurenz Grabher
Real Bracket Creep in Switzerland Quantifying the impact at all three levels of government 28.04.2024, Lukas Rühli, Eveline Hutter
Politics Keeps Consumers on a Short Leash As Switzerland further closes itself off, shopping tourism will become more difficult. 30.11.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Why Does Real Bracket Creep Not Get Compensated? Politicians and public administrators benefit from the leeway created by real bracket creep ‒ at the expense of the middle class 31.08.2023, Lukas Rühli
Real Bracket Creep Analysis For the Elimination of an Unknown Quantity in Taxation 03.08.2023, Lukas Rühli, Mario Bonato
Taxes in the Age of Chatbots Digitization and automation are changing the economy. But that does not mean the tax system has to be reinvented. 24.04.2023, Lukas Schmid, Patrick Leisibach
Why Economists Don’t Much Like Subsidies Subsidies distort markets and create disincentives 26.01.2023, Samuel Rutz, Laurenz Grabher
Overcautious Cantons The cantons closed fiscal 2021 CHF 6.8 billion better than budgeted. This new record puts often-heard warnings of looming deficits into perspective. 31.10.2022, Lukas Rühli
Outcome of OECD Tax Reform Uncertain Arguments for streamlined implementation without government policy experimentation 23.09.2022, Lukas Schmid, Eveline Hutter
Is Minimum Corporate Tax the Silver Bullet? Hannah’s Quicktakes into Avenir Suisse's latest study "Brave New World of Tax" 30.08.2022, Hannah Wise
Obscene Profits? 10 reasons why a special tax on war or crisis profits could prove to be a Pandora's box 30.08.2022, Patrick Leisibach
Brave New World of Tax Analysis What the Federal Government and Cantons Should and Shouldn’t Do in Response to the OECD Tax Reform 15.08.2022, Lukas Schmid, Eveline Hutter
Global Meets Cantonal Higher corporate taxes require competitive measures 31.01.2022, Peter Grünenfelder
Cutting Consumption Does Little to Combat Climate Change Curbs on fossil fuels need to focus on the supply side 31.01.2022, Lukas Rühli
Not Such a Haven Focus of the month Contrary to received opinion, taxes on capital in Switzerland bite hard 30.09.2021, Haig Simonian
Switzerland Should Embrace Business, Not Suspect It Focus of the month Big companies are crucial to the country’s prosperity 09.11.2020, Haig Simonian
Irresponsible? The Role and Perception of Swiss Entrepreneurship in Times of Upheaval 02.11.2020, Marco Salvi, Peter Grünenfelder, Lukas Rühli, Patrick Dümmler, Samuel Rutz, Valérie Müller, Céline Neuenschwander, Matthias Ammann
Why Marry when Living in Sin Is Cheaper? Switzerland is again debating how best to tax married couples 30.06.2020, Haig Simonian