Der Präsident des Tessiner Grosshandelsverbandes hält den Steuerfreibetrag von Fr. 150.- für zu hoch und will ihn auf Fr. 50.- senken.
Also steigen die Preise für alles und der Typ, der Migros/Coop usw. vertritt, sagt, wir müssen Leute bestrafen, die nach Italien gehen, um ihre Lebensmittel/Benzin zu kaufen, weil es in der Schweiz verdammt teuer ist (und wer ist schuld daran?)
You have to love these people…
byu/TripleSpeedy inSwitzerland
Von TripleSpeedy
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Harassing the customer instead of taking proper measures. The truth is the 8% won’t deter anyone to buy abroad. They just hope that e.g. long queues at the custom office will determine the Swiss to buy at Coop or Migros.
I get their point, but it’s fun to see them supported by politicians who are campaigning for „economical freedom“ and against regulations.
Maybe prices could be lowered if more people consumed more locally?
Conservatives will do anything to conserve their interests, including unplugging Switzerland from the EU and forcing the 10 million permitted to be here to buy only from the „cooperative“ oligarchy. Lynching the economy is good for short term gains though.
„[…] the Swiss government’s decision to lower the duty-free threshold for private imports from CHF300 to CHF150 at the start of 2025 is still too high to effectively curb the trend.“
Translation: we want to keep our prices high and punish those that do not accept that and find alternatives. But not us, we are the only ones that must be able to buy low and sell high.
Fuckers. „Retailers feel pressure“, no they don’t. They want to sell high when the people want to buy low, so they lose clients. That’s not pressure, that’s greed. And they’ll do everything possible first to keep those prices up and reduce cost elsewhere.
Honestly, tax exemption should be raised to 1000.-.