Weekly resident
The Wochenaufenthalter is a Swiss legal term used to describe a person who lives the "midweek" near their place of work or their educational institution, but the center of life is in a different place, the official residence , where the certificate of origin at the residents' is stored .
definition
Since it is not possible to have more than one place of residence in Switzerland, the possibility of a one-week stay is provided. The ordinance on admission, residence and gainful employment defines that persons who work in another location during the week without changing the center of their living conditions or who are completing training or further education must register at the location of the weekly stay within 14 days, if the weekly stay is longer than three months in a calendar year. Other legal decrees also define how often - for example twice a month - a weekly resident must return to their actual place of residence in order to be recognized as such.
impact
The weekly resident exercises his / her political rights, such as the right to vote and vote, at the place of residence and not at the place of the weekly stay. Taxation is also carried out by the municipality of residence. Due to the very different local tax rates, this can be an important drive, in addition to the connection to the place of residence, that a person strives for the status of weekly resident. In addition, the additional costs for the weekly stay can be claimed as work-related deductions.
In the official statistics, weekly residents are added to the population of the municipality of residence and not to the place where they stay most of the time and thus use the infrastructure. Particularly in the case of central municipalities such as the city of Zurich, this leads to a difference of around 20,000 people (415,367 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018), resident population with weekly residents 429,407 people as of October 2018)
Varia
In Germany, the term weekend commuters is used.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Swiss Civil Code, Article 23 (as of April 1, 2016)
- ↑ Ordinance on Admission, Residence and Employment, Article 16 (as of January 1, 2016)
- ↑ Ordinance on the admission of people and vehicles to road traffic, Article 5k (as of January 27, 2019)
- ↑ Ordinance of the FDF on the deduction of professional costs of employed persons from direct federal tax, Article 9 (as of January 1, 2016)
- ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Current population, Statistics City of Zurich , accessed on January 15, 2019.
- ↑ Duden entry weekend home drivers ( memento of the original from May 8, 2016 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.
