{"id":98576,"date":"2021-05-12T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T10:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/consiglio-federale-niente-deroghe-per-le-guardie-svizzere\/"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:56:15","slug":"federal-council-no-derogations-for-swiss-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/federal-council-no-derogations-for-swiss-guards\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Council: no derogations for Swiss Guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Federal Council: no derogations for Swiss Guards<\/h1>\n<h3><em>The Government is against the parliamentary initiative 19.429 to exempt Swiss Guards from the obligation to pay military tax for the duration of their service in the Vatican City State<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>The Federal Council does not accept that the Swiss Guards be exempted from the obligation to pay military tax for the duration of their service in the Vatican City State. It decided this at its meeting on May 12, 2021.<br \/>\nThe Security Policy Committee of the National Council (CPS-CN) has approved a bill to exempt the Swiss Guards from paying the military exemption fee.<\/p>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/it_IT\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v10.0\" nonce=\"uKcizp7L\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwissFederalism\/posts\/338188307636910\" data-width=\"500\" data-show-text=\"true\">\n<blockquote class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwissFederalism\/posts\/338188307636910\"><p>The Swiss Guard oath in the State of Citt\u00e0 del Vaticano is an exceptional spectacle: on 6th May 2021, Andreas Aebi and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Pubblicato da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwissFederalism\/\">Swiss Federalism<\/a> su\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SwissFederalism\/posts\/338188307636910\">Domenica 9 maggio 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Federal Council recognizes that the Swiss Guards perform a special and valuable service for the reputation of the Confederation abroad.<br \/>\nHowever, the Federal Council rejects the introduction of an exemption for Swiss Guards because they do not perform military service abroad, but police service for a foreign state.<br \/>\nIn addition, the Swiss Guards do not carry out essential activities for the benefit of the Swiss population which would justify exemption from the tax.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_92739\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92739\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-92739 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conseiller_federal_Guy_Parmelin-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Il Consigliere Federale della Svizzera Guy Parmelin\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conseiller_federal_Guy_Parmelin-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conseiller_federal_Guy_Parmelin-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conseiller_federal_Guy_Parmelin-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conseiller_federal_Guy_Parmelin-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Conseiller_federal_Guy_Parmelin.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-92739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Councillor of Switzerland Guy Parmelin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4>No discrimination against other citizens or other faiths<\/h4>\n<p>In previous revisions of the Military Act the parliament has refrained from introducing such an exemption provision.<br \/>\nAn exemption in the law for the Swiss Guards would violate the prohibition of discrimination against persons of other faiths, since only Swiss citizens of the Roman Catholic faith can become members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/meeting-between-guy-parmelin-and-pope-francis-at-the-vatican\/\"><strong>A meeting between Guy Parmelin and Pope Francis at the Vatican.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, this exemption would violate the principle of equal treatment of all those subject to the tax.<br \/>\nWith its decision, the Federal Council takes a position on the parliamentary initiative 19.429 &#8220;Exemption from military tax for Swiss Guards&#8221;.<br \/>\nBoth Security Policy Committees followed up on the parliamentary initiative. On February 22, 2021, the CPS-CN approved the bill and its report.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96338\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96338\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-96338 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guardie-Svizzere-in-attivita-in-Vaticano-2-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Guardie Svizzere in attivit\u00e0 in Vaticano\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guardie-Svizzere-in-attivita-in-Vaticano-2-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guardie-Svizzere-in-attivita-in-Vaticano-2-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guardie-Svizzere-in-attivita-in-Vaticano-2-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guardie-Svizzere-in-attivita-in-Vaticano-2-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Guardie-Svizzere-in-attivita-in-Vaticano-2.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96338\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swiss Guards in activity at the Vatican<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government is opposed to House Initiative 19.429 to exempt from military tax for the duration of service in Vatican City<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210,305,257],"tags":[645,657,937],"class_list":["post-98576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","category-politics","category-switzerland","tag-army","tag-police","tag-vatican-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98576","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98576"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100112,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98576\/revisions\/100112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swissfederalism.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}