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After World War II, Switzerland experienced an economic boom that fuelled a demand for labour. Agreement-based recruitment programs with southern European countries, particularly Italy, [2] Spain, [3] and Portugal, facilitated the arrival of thousands of “guest workers.” During this period, Switzerland’s immigration laws centred on ...
The net immigration is 80,000 people per year, 1% of the total population (three times more than e.g. in Germany, four times more than in the United States). Every year 30,000 to 40,000 receive Swiss nationality (this represents a per capita rate of about three times that of both Germany and the United States).
In 2013 there were a total of 1,937,447 permanent residents (23.8% of the total population of 8.14 million) in Switzerland. [27] [28] The majority (1.65 million, 85% of the total immigrants and 20.2% of the total population) came from Europe. The following chart shows permanent resident numbers from selected regions and countries every 5 years.
We decided to move to Switzerland in search of the lifestyle we wanted. My family moved to Switzerland 8 years ago. We couldn't find the type of life we wanted in the US.
The first part of the bounty is a $12,000 cash payment -- no strings attached -- that comes with $10,000 doled out over the first year and $2,000 over the second year.
The flat tax abolition proposal called for residents and non-working foreigners to be taxed based only on their income and their assets, [14] whilst the immigration cap proposal put forward by Ecopop called for preserving natural resources by limiting immigration to Switzerland to 0.2% of the population per year.
For example, if you have $1 million in your account, you will withdraw $40,000 in the first year. Then, if inflation increases by 2% in the next year, you would increase the amount you pay ...
It can fluctuate in the range of several billion Swiss francs from year to year (e.g. from 5.3 billion CHF in 1998, to only 1.6 billion CHF in 1999). [16] An analysis of forecasting errors between the years 2001 and 2010 revealed that generally federal revenues are being overestimated during times of recession.