Il presidente dell’Associazione ticinese della grande distribuzione afferma che l’esenzione fiscale di 150 franchi è troppo alta e la vuole abbassata a 50 franchi.
Quindi, i prezzi di tutto stanno salendo e il ragazzo che rappresenta Migros/Coop ecc. dice che dobbiamo punire le persone che vanno in Italia a comprare il cibo/la benzina perché è dannatamente troppo caro in Svizzera (e di chi è la colpa?)
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You have to love these people…
byu/TripleSpeedy inSwitzerland
di 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.-.
While I do see the struggle for retailers in Switzerland compared to neighbouring countries, I also don’t feel sorry for doing some groceries in Italy when I happen to be there. We have been robbed by migros and coop for years. Aldi and Lidl did disrupt the oligopoly for a while though.
At this point somebody could start an initiative to raise it to 500 or more. I assume that people in non border regions would likely oppose it tough