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BGE 10 I 456 ΓÇó Jurisdiction over cantonal tax penalty against an heir
BGE 10 I 456Amtliche Sammlung des Bundesgerichts (BGE) / Band I26.08.1884Dismissed
The heir of Jakob Holliger objected to Aargau jurisdiction after the Ortsbürgergemeinde Boniswyl sought a tax penalty from the estate. He argued that Art. 59 BV required suit at his domicile in Bern. The Federal Court held that the claim was not an ordinary civil debt but a public-law tax penalty claim. Its existence and scope had to be decided by the authorities of the canton whose law governed the claim. The recourse was therefore dismissed.
Art. 59 BV; tax penalty claims under cantonal public law and jurisdiction. Claims for a cantonal tax penalty do not constitute personal claims within the meaning of Art. 59 BV, but public-law penalty claims founded on state sovereignty. Their existence and extent are to be determined by the authorities of the canton whose legislation governs the claim. Authorities of another canton lack competence to decide such public-law claims, save for private-law objections such as payment. Civil courts are likewise not competent where the matter is not a private-law action.
des Schuldigen übergehen. Die aargauischen Behörden seien also auch als forum delicti commissi nicht kompetent. E. Duplikando hält die Ortsbürgergemeinde Boniswyl an ihren Ausführungen und Anträgen fest, indem sie namentlich behauptet, das forum hereditatis sei auch dann begründet, wenn nur ein Erbe vorhanden sei; im vorliegenden Falle sei die Erb schaft zur Zeit der Klageanhebung noch im Kanton Aargau gelegen und von dem Bevollmächtigten des Erben vertreten worden. Das Bundesgericht zieht in Erwägung: