Removal of imputed rental value

[ChickenFat]

I would bet on homeowners trying to bring back deductions within 5 to 10 years (but not EmW). HEV can’t get enough.

Small and medium construction companies will have tough choices to make. Everyone will want to renovate before 2028 but no one after 2028.

[tokzoo]

Let’s not forget that a huge chunk of the housing supply is owned by real estate companies. This votation changes nothing for them. So at the end of the day, I would not expect a big impact on overall prices or the black market.

[JEPG]

@Grog

After the vote, if they don’t change the system to determine tariff, subsidies like this will be distorted and distributed less fairly. What do you think?

So we’re discussing here the fact that people who inherited a large (real) estate have a better standard of living that people who didn’t. Wow. So surprising, so unfair…

On the other side, currently people buying their home with their hard-earned money have to pay more of Kita, just because.

Because they put a potentially large part of their savings in walls instead of not, and have a large debt, so they have to pay more kita and that is so fair!

Distortions?

[nabalzbhf]

@JEPG

Because they put a potentially large part of their savings in walls instead of not, and have a large debt, so they have to pay more kita and that is so fair!

Probably will regret falling for the bait.

In the current system, if they have debt it’s deducted from income. Seems pretty fair to mostly base subsidy based on how much disposable income people have (income - basic needs e.g. healthcare/housing), would also work to allow people to deduct rent from income like some cantons do.

[JEPG]

Nah, no bait, let’s not start again.

Well I was more surprised people are debating the fact that people who inherit a home might have a better standard of living than people who don’t, all things being equal, and that’s described as a “distortion” that imputed rental value would adjust, and that would be fair. It is, if you have communism beliefs.

Then, all paid homes are not inherited real estate. And the one you paid may as well be your heirs’ once upon a time.

[PhilMongoose]

@Wolverine

Some small contractors may try to undercut their competition by working on the black market but I’d guess that depends on the actual contractor (some will/do, some won’t/don’t).

It still seems a relevant point and, I think, an actual risk. I wish I had thought about it before the vote happened.

Well, this is also the unfortunate thing about black markets and corruption. In the end, they put honest businesses at a disadvantage and out-compete them so in the end, it drifts more and more towards black market and corruption.

[Dr.PI]

Well, it looks like this thread has degenerated into a kind that we don’t want. Let’s stop this discussion.