The Swiss people rejected some major tax initiatives, which would have had a reflective impact on both the economy and the attractiveness of the Confederation

Fair Play would have limited executive pay to several of 12 times the wages of the lowest paid worker in an organization. The Federal Council had considered that this would have a detrimental effect on the Swiss economy and recommended rejection of the initiative. The family tax proposal was a plan to make sure that parents who choose to look after their young children themselves should have the same tax subtraction of those parents who get third party childcare and it was measured by some commentators of the government finances.