Swiss voters set to approve pension reform – poll
ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss voters had been poised to approve a pension reform package deal that features elevating ladies’s retirement age by a 12 months to 65 and growing value-added tax (VAT) to shore up the state pension system, a ballot for broadcaster SRF advised on Wednesday.
The GFS Bern survey discovered 59% of respondents had been in favour of creating ladies’s pension age the identical as males’s, and 63% agreed with growing VAT to assist fund the system because the inhabitants ages.
Voters in 2017 rejected https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-pensions-idUSKCN1BZ0CD elevating ladies’s retirement age to 65 as a wave of Child Boomers stops working.
The ballot of round 8,640 folks had a margin of error of two.7 share factors, SRF stated.
The pension measures within the Sept. 25 binding referendums underneath the Swiss system of direct democracy might nonetheless fail ought to they not carry a majority of particular person cantons as nicely.
In different votes that day, proponents of banning manufacturing facility farming had been narrowly forward however opponents had been gaining floor, arguing that Switzerland already had strict guidelines that didn’t want tightening, the ballot discovered.
A vote on a authorities plan to make Switzerland a extra enticing monetary centre for issuing debt by ending a 35% withholding tax on curiosity from bond points was too near name, it confirmed.
(Reporting by Michael Shields; Enhancing by Andrew Heavens)
