Lottery fund
The lottery fund is a fund used by the governments of the Swiss cantons to support cultural , sporting or charitable organizations.
The lottery funds are organized by the cantons and draw their financial resources from the net profit of the state lottery. Around 55% of the lottery stakes are paid out to winners, the remaining amounts cover the operating costs of the lottery or are passed on to the cantons according to a distribution key, because they have the actual lottery monopoly . In the canton of Basel-Landschaft, for example, 78% of the state lottery net profit allocated to this canton goes to the lottery fund.
As a rule, the money goes to projects that are carried out in your own canton. The grants are not of a regular nature, but once approved they can be paid out in pieces. Contributions to the operating costs of an institution or to the start-up capital are not granted. In principle, however, anyone can submit a request, for example for a contribution to the publication of a novel they have written themselves. Projects can only be supported if their implementation has not yet started when the application is submitted. Follow-up and residual financing such as deficit assumptions do not take place.
In some cantons, the purposes of use were expanded on their own initiative, although the Federal Constitution clearly formulated: "The cantons ensure that the net income from the games [...] is used in full for charitable purposes, namely in the areas of culture, social affairs and sport." the cantons of Aargau, Thurgau, Zug and Lucerne became in this regard. Often the expenses of the lottery fund do not appear in a publicly accessible budget, or the government makes its own decisions, as in the canton of Lucerne. In the canton of Vaud, by contrast, the funds are awarded by independent foundations.
The Paul Scherrer Institute , the St.Gallen Concert and Theater Cooperative and the Stapferhaus Foundation have received millions in contributions in recent years .
The cantons, which are the only ones allowed to operate lotteries in Switzerland, have so far rejected requests from Greenpeace , Pro Natura and WWF to set up their own lottery.
Web links
- Newspaper report on the lottery fund of the canton of Solothurn ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 129 kB)
- Ordinance on the lottery fund: Canton Basel-Landschaft as an example
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal decree on the regulation of money games, adopted by the people and the cantons on March 11, 2012
- ↑ Weltwoche article, issue 36/13 ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Luzerner Zeitung of December 12, 2013
- ↑ Florian Imbach: Lottery Fund Evaluation - Large Institutions in particular benefit. In: srf.ch . January 8, 2020, accessed January 8, 2020 .