{"id":96313,"date":"2021-04-28T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/nei-cantoni-di-svitto-e-zugo-milionario-un-abitante-su-otto\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:05:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:05:04","slug":"one-in-eight-residents-in-the-cantons-of-schwyz-and-zug-is-a-millionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/one-in-eight-residents-in-the-cantons-of-schwyz-and-zug-is-a-millionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"One in eight residents in the cantons of Schwyz and Zug is a millionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>One in eight residents in the cantons of Schwyz and Zug is a millionaire<\/h1>\n<h3><em>According to an article in the periodical &#8220;SonntagsBlick&#8221;, two central Swiss states have made the most of tax competition with cities<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>One in eight residents of the Swiss cantons of Schwyz and Zug is a millionaire, according to an article in the &#8220;SonntagsBlick&#8221; magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The Swiss newspaper published the results on Sunday, April 25, based on an analysis of government statistics that include tax and wealth data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/nicola-zanni-in-zug-if-you-want-and-work-hard-you-get-everything\/\"><strong>Nicola Zanni: &#8220;In Zug, if you want it and work hard, you get it all.&#8221;<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/the-canton-of-zug-is-not-satisfied-taxation-even-lower\/\"><strong>Canton Zug is not content: taxes even lower&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Located in central Switzerland, Schwyz and Zug have significantly lower personal tax rates than larger, more densely populated cantons such as Zurich and Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Christoph Schaltegger, professor of political economy at the University of Lucerne, said such examples show that tax competition between cantons is a good thing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96211\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96211\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96211 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Il-convento-domenicano-Sankt-Peter-am-Bach-a-Svitto-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Il convento domenicano Sankt Peter am Bach a Svitto\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Il-convento-domenicano-Sankt-Peter-am-Bach-a-Svitto-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Il-convento-domenicano-Sankt-Peter-am-Bach-a-Svitto-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Il-convento-domenicano-Sankt-Peter-am-Bach-a-Svitto-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Il-convento-domenicano-Sankt-Peter-am-Bach-a-Svitto-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Il-convento-domenicano-Sankt-Peter-am-Bach-a-Svitto.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96211\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dominican monastery Sankt Peter am Bach in Schwyz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/switzerland-paradise-purchase-goods-services-online\/\"><strong>Switzerland paradise of the purchase of goods and services online<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/three-hundred-and-thirty-thousand-scrooges-in-switzerland\/\"><strong>They climb to quota three hundred and thirty thousand the Paperoni in Switzerland<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/up-the-income-of-swiss-households-but\/\"><strong>In high the incomes of the Swiss households, but&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96231\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96231 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/La-zona-bassa-della-citta-di-Zugo-o-Unterstadt-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"La zona bassa della citt\u00e0 di Zugo o Unterstadt\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/La-zona-bassa-della-citta-di-Zugo-o-Unterstadt-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/La-zona-bassa-della-citta-di-Zugo-o-Unterstadt-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/La-zona-bassa-della-citta-di-Zugo-o-Unterstadt-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/La-zona-bassa-della-citta-di-Zugo-o-Unterstadt-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/La-zona-bassa-della-citta-di-Zugo-o-Unterstadt.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The lower part of the city of Zug or Unterstadt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>Growth from 11 millionaires per 1,000 inhabitants in 1969<\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;It gives remote and structurally weak regions the opportunity to assert themselves against attractive urban centers,&#8221; he told the SonntagsBlick.<\/p>\n<p>Across Switzerland, the number of millionaires per 1,000 taxpayers was 62 in 2017, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/schwyz-glarus-lost-semicantons-swiss-history\/\"><strong>Schwyz and Glarus, Lost Semicantons of Swiss History.<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/waldstaette-forest-cantons-swiss\/\"><strong>Waldst\u00e4tte and the &#8220;forest&#8221; cantons at the dawn of Switzerland&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has increased considerably from eleven per thousand in 1969.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Baar, a small town in the Z\u00fcrich hinterland, pay about 7.5 percent in personal taxes for every 100,000 Swiss francs ($109,450) of income, according to the tax return preparation service Transforma AG.<br \/>\nGeneva residents pay roughly 16 percent in taxes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Steuerstandort Schweiz (La Piazza Fiscale Svizzera in lingua tedesca)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/En5qBzWvYl4?feature=oembed&#038;width=840&#038;height=1000&#038;discover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"La Place Fiscale Suisse (La Piazza Fiscale Svizzera in lingua francese)\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ERjG6Ce4dQ?feature=oembed&#038;width=840&#038;height=1000&#038;discover=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91864\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91864\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-91864 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/La-produzione-di-franchi-presso-la-Banca-Nazionale-Svizzera.-3-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"La produzione di franchi presso la Banca Nazionale Svizzera\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/La-produzione-di-franchi-presso-la-Banca-Nazionale-Svizzera.-3-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/La-produzione-di-franchi-presso-la-Banca-Nazionale-Svizzera.-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/La-produzione-di-franchi-presso-la-Banca-Nazionale-Svizzera.-3-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/La-produzione-di-franchi-presso-la-Banca-Nazionale-Svizzera.-3-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/La-produzione-di-franchi-presso-la-Banca-Nazionale-Svizzera.-3.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Production of Swiss francs at the Swiss National Bank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article in the periodical &#8220;SonntagsBlick, two central Swiss states have been able to make the most of tax competition with the cities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,328,256,210,305,257],"tags":[398,263,427,411,262,775],"class_list":["post-96313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canton-schwyz","category-canton-zug","category-economy","category-magazine","category-politics","category-switzerland","tag-federalism","tag-future","tag-schwyz","tag-tax-competition","tag-taxation","tag-zug-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96336,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96313\/revisions\/96336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}