All of the country's self-governing cantons also voted against in the poll, which needed a majority from Switzerland's 26 cantons as well as a simple majority of voters to succeed.
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Cantons have wide latitude in how they deal with companies.
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Several cantons will also lower their general business tax rates.
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Several cantons have already taken a stand on the issue.
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The other is a Bosniak-Croat federation, consisting of ten cantons.
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The Federation consists of ten cantons, each with its own prime minister.
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Palestinians, divided into rival cantons, are weaker and more isolated than ever.
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Cantons or municipalities own or subsidize almost 85003 percent of hospital beds.
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The country's 26 cantons, or states, have received just over 1.1 billion francs.
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The cantons provide direct subsidies for inpatient care, nursing homes and home care.
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Internet voting has been used in Switzerland in various cantons on a trial basis since 2004, but Switzerland hoped to make it available as an option nationwide, with plans to offer it in the majority of the country's cantons by October.
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That would roll back YPG gains and separate two of the Kurdish-dominated cantons.
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Can Syria remain whole or must it be subdivided into religious and ethnic cantons?
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This one calls for four separate opposition cantons to be surround by unspecified peacekeepers.
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We would be an association of cantons, which is still true for black America.
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The plan still needs support from parliament and could face referendums in cantons hosting events.
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Venues would be spread around Valais and the neighboring cantons of Fribourg, Berne and Vaud.
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The avalanche coincided with school holidays in some cantons, including Geneva, as well as overseas.
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The country has a decentralized tax system, and the rate varies around its 26 cantons.
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Cantons in turn will lower their tax rates for normal companies to deter them from leaving.
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Cantons in turn will lower their tax rates for 'ordinary' companies to deter them from leaving.
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For instance, cantons govern what happens in high schools while municipalities have control over primary schools.
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In all, nearly 7,500 candidates ran for 518 seats in local assemblies in Bosnia's 10 cantons.
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But sweetheart deals with cantons reduce it to as little as 9% for some big firms.
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It's been used a couple hundred times in various cantons on a trial basis since 2004.
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The Palestinians said that the state they were being offered was an untenable scatter of cantons.
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The Kurdish YPG militia and its allies have carved out cantons in the north since 2011.
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Cantons would also tax at least 70 percent of these dividends, up from 40-70 percent now.
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Around 40 percent of the shares are owned by Switzerland's cantons, while cantonal banks hold 12 percent.
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Of the 26 cantons, the 12 that responded to a Reuters inquiry all reported higher 2015 applications.
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But any profit it does make is distributed to the Swiss government and the country's 26 cantons.
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The Kurdish zone is now divided into three semi-autonomous cantons known as Jazira, Kobani, and Afrin.
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If they become sanctuaries for thousands who oppose the regime, do they end up being cantons of resistance?
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Yousef said the Kurdish groups and their allies were still seeking to link up the regions, or cantons.
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The Swiss government, cantons, or even citizens would get funds in the form of so-called helicopter money.
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The goal is to raise that to two thirds of the 26 cantons that make up the Swiss Confederation.
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SCOTLAND is fast becoming one of the world's most powerful subnational states, along with Canadian provinces and Swiss cantons.
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Local cantons, or states, in Switzerland are the ones who administer elections and would be responsible for the configuration.
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In the majority-Kurdish cantons, winning Arab support is not essential, and indoctrination seems to be more the goal.
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By occupying a strip of northern Syria, Turkey has prevented the Kurds from linking their eastern and western cantons.
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"The cantons should decide for themselves whether or not to ban facial coverings in public places," the statement said.
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Power in Bosnia lies with the entities and the cantons, not the national government—but something similar happens in Switzerland.
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But a portion of any profit it does make is distributed to the Swiss government and the country's 26 cantons.
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Compulsory military service began in the Swiss cantons long before the establishment of a federal military in the 19th century.
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The Swiss cantons said capacity additions were in the works as they prepare to tackle an expected rise in cases.
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That basically means maintaining the current situation of Palestinian cantons divided by growing Israeli settlements and surrounded by Israeli forces.
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The YPG and its allies have carved out autonomous cantons in the north, and now control nearly a quarter of Syria.
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The largest Muslim Bosniak party SDA secured the most votes in Bosnia's autonomous Bosniak-Croat Federation and its Bosniak Muslim-dominated cantons.
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The region lies between two Kurdish-controlled cantons - one east of the Euphrates and the other to the west near the Mediterranean.
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Since the onset of Syria's conflict in 2011, the YPG and its allies have carved out three autonomous cantons in the north.
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The measure needed to secure a majority of Switzerland's 26 cantons as well as a simple majority of voters to be successful.
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The proposals, which could be challenged by a referendum before their planned introduction in 2019, could cut the income of some cantons.
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"Reconciliation in the mountains is fixed and we do not want Lebanon to become a country of cantons," President Michel Aoun tweeted.
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Local leaders in its 26 cantons, or subdivisions, and community leaders in its more than 2,000 municipalities make many of the policy decisions.
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Of the 2,000 American special forces involved in the campaign against IS in Syria, many are based in Kurdish cantons east of Afrin.
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Squeezed between France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria and Germany, it is divided into 26 cantons, each influenced by the country it is closest to.
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They tend to be highest in the French-speaking regions of the west and lower in the German-speaking cantons of central Switzerland.
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Cantons in northwest Switzerland, for their part, are preparing to accept six seriously ill coronavirus patients from Alsace, Swiss authorities said on Sunday.
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Yet Kurdish officials have not moderated their calls for Kurdish self-rule and their desire to link Kurds' disconnected cantons in northern Syria.
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Since the onset of the conflict in 2011, the YPG and its allies have set up three autonomous cantons in the north, including Afrin.
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Since the onset of Syria's conflict in 2011, the YPG and its allies have carved out three autonomous cantons in the north, including Afrin.
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I want to ask how far these ideas spread to "ordinary" people in Kobani or in the other two cantons in free (Kurdish) Syria.
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The Kurdish YPG militia and its political allies have carved out autonomous cantons in the north, and now control nearly a quarter of Syria.
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Since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, Syrian Kurdish forces and their allies have set up three autonomous cantons in the north, including Afrin.
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In addition, many cantons say they would reduce corporate tax rates for all companies to reduce the fiscal burden and dissuade multinationals from leaving.
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They might consult a psychiatrist or talk with authorities in other cantons where a prospective gun buyer has lived before to vet the person.
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"The persistent drought puts agriculture in a difficult situation in various areas," it said, adding its measures would complement steps taken by individual cantons.
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In addition, each of the country's 26 cantons, or states, has its own rules on foreign homeownership (and its own taxes and notary fees).
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To cover the shortfall of around 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.06 billion), the federal government will lift the share of federal tax that cantons get.
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He proposes instead that the province be divided into six cantons, including one each for the Yazidis, Christians, Shabaks and Kurds—all under Kurdish protection.
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A coalition led by the largest Croat party HDZ won the most votes of Croats in the Federation parliament and in the majority Croat cantons.
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Of the country's 26 cantons, the 12 that responded to a Reuters inquiry all reported higher 2015 applications for permits entitling people to buy guns.
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From next January cantons will still be able to set their own rates, but not offer better deals to foreign companies than to domestic ones.
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So, besides installing "patent boxes" (frowned upon by tax-fairness campaigners but compliant with international tax rules), cantons are cutting their ordinary corporate-tax rates.
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Local cantons, or states, in Switzerland are the ones who administer elections and would be responsible for administering the internet voting system in their districts.
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The SDF has expanded beyond mainly Kurdish parts of the north, where the forces have carved out autonomous cantons since the onset of Syria's conflict.
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But Switzerland wants to make it available as an option nationwide, with plans to offer it in three-fourths of the country's cantons before October.
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In addition, many cantons have said they would decrease corporate tax rates for all companies to reduce the fiscal burden and dissuade multinationals from leaving.
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It suspects the Kurds of wanting independence in the long-run and does not recognize the autonomous cantons they have set up in northern Syria.
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Finance Minister Ueli Maurer said the government now needed time to analyse and address with cantons the situation that business leaders called a dangerous legal limbo.
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Ankara is determined to prevent Kurdish forces from joining up cantons they control along the Turkish border, for fear it will stoke Kurdish separatism at home.
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It set conditions that the project primarily uses existing infrastructure and focuses on sustainability by spreading events over various cantons (states) and relying on public transport.
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They will also select leaders and assemblies of its two autonomous regions - the Serb Republic and the Bosniak-Croat Federation, and of the Federation's 10 cantons.
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Since the onset of Syria's conflict in 2011, the YPG and its allies have set up three autonomous cantons in the north, including Afrin bordering Turkey.
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One aim was to stop the Kurdish YPG militia from crossing the Euphrates westwards and linking up three mainly Kurdish cantons it holds in northern Syria.
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Finance Minister Ueli Maurer said the government now needed time to analyze and address with cantons the situation that business leaders called a dangerous legal limbo.
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They also voted for leaders and assemblies of its two autonomous regions - the Serb Republic and the Bosniak-Croat Federation, and of the federation's 10 cantons.
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While it would do little to prevent the Kurdish autonomous areas inside northeast Syria from consolidating, it would isolate those cantons from Kurdish areas in Iraq.
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To cover the resulting revenue shortfall of around 2 billion Swiss francs ($1.98 billion), the federal government will increase the share of federal tax that cantons get.
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But decentralization into autonomous cantons essentially entrenched the status quo achieved by Serb and Croat forces that fought to create ethnic statelets out of Bosnia, critics say.
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To cover the resulting revenue shortfall of around 2 billion Swiss francs ($2 billion), the federal government will increase the share of federal tax that cantons get.
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For example, the Swiss federal government is responsible for institutes of technology; the cantons are responsible for high schools; and the municipalities control primary schools and kindergartens.
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Switzerland has been criticized by the European Union and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development over the special tax status that the cantons give foreign companies.
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The SNB proposed a dividend of 15 francs per share, the legal maximum, and a payout of 2 billion francs to the Swiss cantons and the central government.
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Switzerland lagged behind in part because of the system of cantons, autonomous law-making states within the Swiss federation, some of which considered female suffrage while others did not.
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Haidar, the reconciliation minister, added a warning in his television interview that rebel-held areas like Daraya could not "remain isolated cantons that pose a threat to the state".
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And on the other side is this broken, dysfunctional, divided Palestinian leadership that is barely capable of governing the few cantons under its jurisdiction: the West Bank and Gaza.
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Switzerland has been in the firing line of the European Union and OECD club of rich countries for years over the special tax status that cantons give foreign companies.
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Making a profit is not part of the SNB's mandate, but the cash it generates makes a substantial contribution to the coffers of Switzerland's federal government and 26 cantons.
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In Switzerland, for example, incoming refugees are just assigned randomly to one of the country's 26 cantons (administrative districts), while in the US, assignments are based solely on capacity.
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"Tell" is rich with big, stirring choral scenes for Swiss peasants, valiant volunteer fighters from three Swiss cantons, as well as hunters and guards of the occupying Austrian governor.
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The proposed changes would take effect in 2021 should they win support from Axpo's government owners, including the cantons of Zurich, Aargau, Glarus and Zug in the coming months.
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The plan was to choose lesser-known spots to evade the August crowds and explore cantons where each national language — French, Italian, German and Romansh — was spoken and celebrated.
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That was followed by the German regional states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, as well as three Swiss cantons, also joining in the effort to care for French patients.
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A new federal system could mean that those three cantons are united under one federal system, that is still part of, but largely independent from the Syrian central government.
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Since the onset of Syria's conflict in 2011, the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and its allies have set up three autonomous cantons in the north, including Afrin which borders Turkey.
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After hundreds of years of letting local cantons determine gun rules, Switzerland passed its first federal regulations on guns in 1999, after the country's crime rate increased during the 1990s.
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SNB profits are not part of its monetary policy mandate but the annual payments have sometimes meant the difference between a budget surplus and a budget deficit for some cantons.
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The Swiss government said it will increase the portion of tax it gives to the cantons and has earmarked almost 1 billion Swiss francs ($1.04 billion) to cover the shortfall.
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The profit was the second-largest in the bank's 113-year history and meant the SNB can increase its payout to 4 billion francs to the Swiss government and cantons.
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This PIT comes as the Swiss government is planning to expand its e-voting capabilities by October 22017 to two thirds of the 22007 cantons that make up the Swiss Confederation.
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Also, the Serb-dominated Serb Republic, an autonomous region that makes up Bosnia along with a federation of Croat and Muslim cantons, has refused to accept any migrants on its territory.
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The move comes as some Swiss cantons baulk at authorizing new antennas needed to support 5G services after a spectrum auction in February that raised 380 million Swiss francs ($377 million).
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The Dayton peace accord divided it into two entities: one dominated by Serbs and the other shared by Croats and Bosniacs in a federation that was further divided into 10 cantons.
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"That's my reasoning, it was on his initiative that he gave the order to kill the people of El Mozote, and the other surrounding cantons," the retired general told the court.
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Ueli Maurer, the Swiss finance minister, said the government now needed time to address with the cantons — or Swiss states — a situation that business leaders have called a dangerous legal limbo.
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Axpo, wholly owned by cantons or regions in northeast Switzerland, has been active in Germany since 2003 and already supplies gas on the wholesale market to municipal utilities and industrial companies.
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The titular hero has helped the cantons of Switzerland rise up against Hapsburg oppression and, in the process, won the famous archery contest involving an apple balanced on his son's head.
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The cantons meanwhile are expected to post a 2017 surplus of 719 million francs, up from 267 million francs a year earlier and helped by their pay-out from the central bank.
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And he has stopped the People's Protection Units (YPG), a Kurdish militia backed by America but regarded by the Turkish government as a terrorist group, from linking its eastern and western cantons.
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But the government of the Herzegovina-Neretva canton, one of 10 cantons in the Federation, said they were not informed about the decision and that arrival of migrants could 'destabilize' their region.
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The SDF alliance, which the Kurdish YPG militia spearheads, has expanded beyond mainly Kurdish parts of the north, where the forces have carved out autonomous cantons since the onset of Syria's conflict.
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J'ai choisi la vallée de la Missisquoi dans les cantons de l'est en Québec, parce que j'aimais la signification du nom donné par les Premières Nations à la baie: beaucoup d'oiseaux aquatiques.
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Because Afrin, along with the cantons of Euphrates and Jazira, is experimenting with a form of bottom-up, direct democracy that is arguably more progressive than any other system in the West.
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The government plans to scrap special tax status for these companies that pay corporate rates in individual cantons as low as 7.8% to 12%, compared with 12% to 24% for "normal" Swiss companies.
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Despite the loss SNB said it expected to make a profit distribution of 2 billion francs to Swiss cantons and the federal government after its record profit in 2017 boosted its distribution reserve.
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The Swiss cabinet said individual cantons should decide on the matter, which nevertheless will go to a nationwide vote under Switzerland's system of direct democracy after activists last year gathered enough public support.
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A new paper by Anna Alberini and Markus Bareit compares policy changes in Switzerland's 26 cantons to changes in new car sales in each area between 2005 and 2011 as a natural experiment.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government urged voters on Wednesday to reject a campaign for a nationwide ban on face veils, saying any decision on facial coverings was a matter for Switzerland's cantons individually.
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Ankara is determined to prevent the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a hostile force, from joining up cantons it controls along the Turkish border, fearing that would embolden Kurdish separatism at home.
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With GDP per capita of CHF96,778 in 2013 and a population of more than 1.4 million inhabitants, Zurich is considered one of the wealthiest cantons in Switzerland, contributing about 22% of the national economy.
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Turkey is determined to prevent the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a hostile force, from joining up cantons it controls along the Turkish border, fearing that would embolden Kurdish separatism at home.
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Since the Arab Spring in 2011, Rojava's predominantly Kurdish population of around 3-4 million has effected a bottom-up transformation of society into a direct democracy, organized into three self-governing, Swiss-style cantons.
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The Swiss cabinet said individual cantons should decide on the matter, but it will nevertheless go to a nationwide vote after activists last year collected more than the required 100,000 signatures to trigger a referendum.
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Swiss Economy Minister Johann Schneider-Ammann, from the center-right Liberals, pledged to continue talks with labor, employers and Switzerland's 26 regional cantons, in the hope of presenting joint proposals to the cabinet next month.
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Some 24,123 international companies are domiciled there to benefit from low-tax deals offered by its 26 cantons, which set their own rates on top of the federal corporate income-tax rate of around 8%.
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Turkey wants to stop Kurdish forces taking control of territory that lies between cantons to the east and west that they already hold, and so creating an unbroken Kurdish- controlled corridor on Turkey's southern border.
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We trudge through deep snow toward a wooded area on a hill; between sturdy blackish trees we stumble upon the stone that marks the border between the Cantons of Appenzell Outer Rhodes and St. Gallen.
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The government plans to scrap special tax status for these companies that pay corporate rates in individual cantons as low as 7.8 to 12 percent, compared with 12 to 24 percent for "normal" Swiss companies.
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But a substantial and growing number live so deep in the West Bank that they break the territory into cantons separated by military checkpoints and roads set aside for the exclusive use of the Israelis.
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Large resorts in the Swiss cantons of the Grisons and Valais, Austria's Tyrol province and France's Savoie region have the marketing pull to survive, Siegrist said, listing high- altitude Andermatt, Zermatt and St Moritz in Switzerland.
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There are of course huge regional differences; Switzerland is divided into twenty-six cantons, with four official languages spoken (French, German, Italian and Romansh), and each town and city has its own metal character and reputation.
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The Syrian Kurds are instead focused on linking Kurdish 'cantons' along the border with Turkey, creating an autonomous zone that would give them control of much of Syria's border with Turkey -- which is where things get complicated.
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Since the war, which killed 100,000 people, Bosnia has been divided between a Serb Republic and a federation of Croat and Muslim cantons, with a presidency formed of one member from each of the three main groups.
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Bosnia includes two autonomous regions - the Bosniak-Croat Federation and the Serb Republic linked via a weak central government - as well as the neutral Brcko district and 10 cantons with a total of 14 different legal jurisdictions.
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The Euphrates Shield operation is largely focused on combating Islamic State, but Ankara is also determined to prevent the Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as a hostile force, from linking cantons it controls along the border.
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After the crash, the Swiss retreated into a kind of medieval info-sharing arrangement between the pre-federation Cantons, using a combination of Romansh, Polybius squares, and Vigenère ciphers to attempt a cold restart of the banking system.
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ZURICH (Reuters) - A radical plan to upend Switzerland's financial landscape by barring commercial banks from creating money has been defeated after failing to win a majority of support from the Swiss cantons, Swiss broadcaster SRF said on Sunday.
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"We are not clear how the German referee could have been appointed for the match between Switzerland and Serbia, when it is well known that one of Swiss confederation cantons is a German canton," Serbia said in its statement.
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"The initiative would make it impossible to take into account the individual cantons' differing sensitivities, in particular removing their ability to determine for themselves how they wish to treat tourists from Arab states who wear facial coverings," it added.
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Turkey's aim was also to stop the YPG from crossing the Euphrates westwards and linking three mainly Kurdish cantons it holds in northern Syria, preventing it from carving out a self-governing territory analogous to Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region.
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Meant to lay the groundwork for "a society free from authoritarianism, militarism, centralism and the intervention of religious authority in public affairs," the charter established three autonomous cantons in Rojava, as the Kurdish region in northern Syria is known.
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Authority was further subdivided, largely along ethnic lines, with the establishment of 10 local units of government called cantons, each with its own president and set of ministers who duplicate many of the functions of the weak national government.
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The SNB operated in the best interests of all of Switzerland, the central bank chairman said, while it was up to politicians to decide what to do with the money it paid the government and cantons as a dividend.
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It plans to abolish special tax status enjoyed by 24,000 foreign companies that pay corporate tax rates in individual cantons as low as 7.8 to 12 percent, far below the 12 to 24 percent rate applied to 'normal' Swiss companies.
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Young Kurdish militants from the youth wing of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or P.K.K., inspired by the success of Kobani and Rojava cantons in Syria, built barricades in towns and cities across southeastern Turkey and created de facto liberated zones.
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When I visited Rojava -- or the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, as these cantons are collectively known -- in March 2016, I witnessed a revolution unlike any other; women's equality, with the end of patriarchy their avowed goal, is driving this revolution.
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But it fears the YPG will try to connect three de facto autonomous Kurdish cantons that have emerged during the five-year war to create a Kurdish-run enclave in northern Syria, stoking the separatist ambitions of Kurds on its own soil.
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The affirmation reflects Zurich's high degree of autonomy and corresponding capability to adjust personal and corporate income tax rates, in line with all Switzerland's cantons, its wealthy and dynamic economy, its prudent budgetary and debt management as well as its sound debt ratios.
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For its part, Turkey's focus is squarely on ensuring that the Turkmen and Arab rebels it backs secure the 90 km strip of territory south of its border and prevent Kurdish militias from joining up cantons they already control on either side.
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Worried about the possibility that Kurdish fighters might link up separate cantons to establish an autonomous enclave across northern Syria, as well as about the presence of Islamic State fighters near its borders, Turkey sent its own forces into northern Syria in August.
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The new settlement is to be built in the Shilo area, where a string of outposts and settlements cuts across the West Bank horizontally in what critics describe as a bid to prevent a contiguous Palestinian-controlled territory and to create Palestinian cantons.
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Just over 60 percent of votes were in favor, including majorities in 17 of the country's 23 electoral cantons — a minimum of 12 are required to pass — despite a right-wing campaign that sought to stoke fears of Muslims infiltrating the country.
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The affirmation reflects Zurich's high degree of autonomy, as demonstrated by its power to adjust personal and corporate income tax rates, in line with all Switzerland's cantons, its wealthy and dynamic economy and its track record of sound financial performance and flexibility.
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Eversource Energy, the utility company that provides electric power to wide swaths of New England, says it has a solution: The Northern Pass project, a proposed hydroelectric 192-mile-long power line that would begin in Des Cantons in Quebec and snake through New Hampshire.
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Projections based on preliminary results for most of Switzerland's cantons showed the left-wing Green Party and the Green Liberal Party had achieved significant gains in their share of the popular vote, winning enough parliamentary seats to become a significant force in the legislature.
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Another man who had been traveling with the woman also tested positive for the virus on Thursday, the authorities said, adding he resided in a different region, while outside of Basel, regional and national authorities on Thursday confirmed first cases in five further cantons.
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Another man who had been traveling with the woman also tested positive for the virus on Thursday, the authorities said, adding he resided in a different region, while outside of Basel, regional and national authorities on Thursday confirmed first cases in five further cantons.
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As an art form, Scherenschnitt — known as decoupage in the French-speaking cantons of Switzerland — is believed to have originated in China sometime after paper was invented in the first century, and there are indications it was still being practiced in the sixth century.
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