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BGE 39 II 407 ΓÇó Federal appeal inadmissible in Zurich inheritance tax case
BGE 39 II 407Amtliche Sammlung des Bundesgerichts (BGE) / Band II15.01.1913Inadmissible
The Zurich authorities imposed inheritance tax on the defendants after finding that the deceased had either established a domicile in Zurich or, at minimum, sufficient ties to create an inheritance-tax domicile. On federal appeal, the defendants attacked the finding of tax liability. The Federal Court did not enter into the merits, holding that the cantonal courts had decided the matter exclusively under cantonal law and had only applied federal civil provisions by analogy. A dispute over tax liability concerns public-law subordination and therefore falls outside the federal civil appeal jurisdiction under Art. 56 OG.
Art. 56 OG; admissibility of federal civil appeal in matters of inheritance tax liability; a dispute is not open to civil appeal where the cantonal courts decide it exclusively under cantonal law and merely invoke Art. 24 ZGB or Art. 3 of the federal act on domicile and residence by analogy. Tax liability is an issue of public law, relating to the individual's subordination to state authority, and thus belongs to cantonal administrative law rather than to civil law (consid. 1).
auf Grund des eidgenössischen Rechtes zu entscheiden, da sich der Streit um die Frage der Steuerpflicht dreht, die das Unterord nungsverhältnis des Bürgers zur Staatsgewalt berührt und des halb dem Gebiete des kantonalen öffentlichen Rechts, insbesondere des Verwaltungsrechts angehört (vergl. AS 38 II S. 364).