Economy

2023-07-14 13:16:03

The MF-ANAF IT systems will be under maintenance from Friday (14 July) at 18:00 until Monday (17 July) at 08:00.

ANAF – FiscPhoto: Hotnews / Florin Barbuta

“Because of this, related services will operate with partial or total interruptions. We apologize for the inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding”, says the institution on its website.

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2023-07-14 16:07:44

Will the famous banking district at rue du Rhône in Geneva soon be ancient history? Several private banking institutions have recently announced that they will leave the city for the next few years. These departures raise fears of an exodus and raise questions regarding the attractiveness of Geneva.

Next year, at least three major banks will leave the city of Calvin. If the departure of the head office of the Lombard Odier bank in Bellevue (GE) in 2024 has been known for a long time, the recent announcements of moves by BNP Paribas and Edmond de Rotschild to peripheral municipalities, such as Vernier and Lancy, raise questions.

Critics on the right

Several right-wing personalities have sharply criticized the City’s policy in this area, whose executive and legislative branches are mostly on the left politically. In reaction to these departures, the Geneva promoter Stéphane Barbier-Müller recently accused the “delusions sores” and “hostility” towards the banks of the Geneva authorities. The president of the PLR ​​City of Geneva Kevin Schmid sees it as a bad signal for the attractiveness of the capital and is worried regarding tax revenues.

The city authorities partly share these questions, because these companies were big contributors in terms of taxes for the city.

But it is above all the loss of some 3000 employees working on the territory of the city and often well paid which is likely to burden the tax revenues of natural persons. However, it is not yet possible to know the exact effects.

A question of opportunities, according to the mayor

The mayor of Geneva, Alfonso Gomez, however, sweeps away the idea of ​​a general exodus and excessively high taxes in the city of Calvin. “Fiscally speaking, it is not at all interesting for these banks, because the municipalities of Vernier and Lancy know additional cents higher than Geneva”, he estimates Friday in the 12:30.

According to the Green, in charge of the finances of the City, it is rather a question of opportunity. “They leave for new districts, with buildings available, certified ecological buildings, efficient and dense public transport. These moves do not imply a desire to flee the city”, he explains once more.

For Alfonso Gomez, this proves that these companies are not leaving the city because of “delusions of sores or environmentalists, since they are heading straight for neighborhoods that meet the latest ecological standards”. The elected official counts in particular on the construction of new districts, like the PAV (Praille-Accacias-Vernets) to offer public facilities capable of attracting large-scale companies.

However, the number of companies present on the territory of the City of Geneva decreased between 2019 and 2020, the last year for which statistics are available. They went from 23,176 to 22,961 in this time frame. This drop can perhaps be explained by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the City of Geneva.

The authorities nevertheless claim to have succeeded in attracting large companies in the recent past, such as Bank of China or Japan Tobacco International.

Mohamed Musadak/jfe

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2023-07-14 15:01:32

Six political parties announced this Friday, July 14, 2023, their withdrawal from the ANAD led by Cellou Dalein Diallo, to form another alliance, in order to prepare accordingly for the upcoming elections. Diabaty Doré has just reacted to this resignation.

“The real political parties are constant and they are there. There are parties among them (those who left) that you have neither seen nor known on the political spectrum. This is now where you call them by their names. These are parties that are neither known nor seen. It was when the ANAD was created in the run-up to an election that these parties came. So for us there is no fire at home. The ANAD exists and the ANAD will always continue to exist because today our objective is to conquer power for the well-being of the Guinean population. Those who left, I think it’s not bad. In politics it’s like a train each time there are some who get off others don’t get off. Most importantly those who go up outnumber those who go down. In any case within the ANAD we are calm, everything is going well, there is nothing wrong. We saw that coming a long time ago. it makes us neither hot nor cold. So we don’t talk regarding it, ”said the vice-president of ANAD at the microphone of our colleagues from Espace Tv.

The president of the RPR affirms that several political actors are in politics not to provide solutions to the ills from which Guinea suffers but for personal interests: “There are several stocks of politicians in the Republic of Guinea who will say we promise you that and that, following they leave. These are not people who are in politics because they want to bring solutions to Guinea’s problems, but they are there just for themselves because they are going to earn something to live on. I am not in politics to live.

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