@page { size: 8.27in 11.69in; margin: 0.79in }p { margin-bottom: 0.1in; line-height: 115%; background: transparent }TheGenève Place Financière foundation on Wednesday, 9 October,announced that the banking sector contributes 12% of the grossdomestic product of the canton of Geneva, adding that financialintermediaries were expressing confidence for 2018 and 2019.Theinstitution is hoping to create a partnership between the privatesector and the Swiss public authorities at all levels, to apply taxreforms for moral persons and maintain reasonable tax levels fornatural persons.Thefoundation notes that during the financial crisis, relationshipscould sometimes be tense between the financial industry and publicbodies.“Theparadigm change has come largely since Switzerland has adoptedautomatic information exchanges, which has ushered in a new era ofpeaceful public-private partnerships,” it says.Taxationfor moral and natural persons represents a major challenge forGeneva, the foundation says.“Onthe one hand, as far as taxation of moral persons goes, Geneva cannotallow itself to fail to adopt the ‘PF 17’ reform, if it hopes toremain competitive with its neighbours, such as the Canton of Vaud,which has already adopted these measures. Meanwhile, taxation is anindispensable tool to keep taxpayers in Geneva who paid in more thanCHF400m for the canton in 2016. In these two areas, the financialmarketplace calls on the political circles to show pragmatism,” thefoundation says in a statement.Accordingto data reported by Genève Place Financière, the Geneva financialsector currently has 35,600 employees, and most bankingestablishments are planning recruiting personnel.
