Taxation of tips meets with little approval in survey
Published: Sunday, Dec 1st 2024, 07:20
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Tips should not be taxed as a normal part of wages. Only a quarter of respondents currently consider taxation to be sensible. The survey results were less clear when it came to the question of abolishing tips.
In an additional evaluation of the follow-up survey conducted by 20 Minuten and Tamedia on the national referendum on November 24, 48 percent of respondents were in favor of abolishing tips and increasing the basic wage for restaurant employees. 46 percent said "no" or "rather no".
However, there was a clear gender divide. While 55% of women said "yes" or "rather yes", 53% of men said "no". Conversely, 41% of men said "yes" and 40% of women said "no".
The majority of FDP and SVP party sympathizers were against the abolition of tipping. Only a small majority of GLP (51%) and centrist (52%) supporters voted in favor of abolishing tipping. For the SP and Greens, the figures were 59% and 58% respectively.
There were hardly any differences between the sexes when it came to the question of whether tips should be taxed. 67 percent of men said "no" or "rather no". The figure for women was 71 percent. FDP supporters (80 percent) were most clearly against such a tax.
13,215 people from German-speaking Switzerland, French-speaking Switzerland and Ticino took part in the online survey on November 21. The margin of error for estimates based on the entire sample is 2.2 percentage points.
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