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Table 2 The importance of inter vivos gifts inter vivos gifts in percent of the volume of bequests

From: Inheritance flows in Switzerland, 1911–2011

Year

Zurich

Bern

Ticino

Vaud

Germany

 

Source: Daepp (2003)

Source: Schinke (2012)

1911

    

8

1961

    

18

1973

    

30

1978

    

30

1995

 

30.6

   

1996

 

41.8

   

1997

 

42.2

42.4

  

1998

49.1

39.3

31.1

  

1998a

36.9

    

1999

 

27.5

40.2

  

2000

 

23.4

   

2001

 

34.4

 

17.9

 

2002

 

33.5

 

43.9

34

2007

    

58

2009

    

59

Average

 

33.5

36.5

30.4

 
  1. aExcluding wealth transfers larger than CHF 200 million