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One of the other nice features of Swiss rental law is "imputed rent", which is rent the government assumes you have collected even if the property is empty, and
by jlangenauer 3y ago
One of the other nice features of Swiss rental law is "imputed rent", which is rent the government assumes you have collected even if the property is empty, and upon which you are taxed. Discourages keeping properties empty.
- robertlagrant 3y agoGetting people to pay income tax on income they don't earn might be a good solution to unemployment.
- thfuran 3y agoThrough higher suicide rates?
- futureamish 3y agoThey're always free to sell.
- oblio 3y ago> Getting people to pay income tax on income they don't earn might be a good solution to unemployment. That's not equivalent, I hope you're being sarcastic. People who can afford not to rent out an expensive property are almost by definition multi-millionaires.
- robertlagrant 3y ago> People who can afford not to rent out an expensive property are almost by definition multi-millionaires. Those people (and those properties) do not make up all, or even most, of the picture.