With the introduction of the microtax, professor Marc Chesney wants to revolutionize the Swiss tax system. The idea of a tax on electronic transactions that the head of the banking institute at the University of Zurich favors, will probably provoke a rebuke from representatives of Swiss banking.

Professor Marc Chesney, head of the Department of Banking and Finance of the University of Zurich is part of a five-member committee looking to introduce a microtax in Switzerland. His colleagues are Felix Bolliger (a Zurich-based wealth manager and founder of the microtax), Oswald Sigg (former government spokesman and vice-chancellor of Switzerland), Anton Gunzinger (professor at the ETH and chairman of Super Computing Systems) and Jacob Zgraggen (a lawyer). 

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