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BGE 4 I 523 ΓÇó No federal jurisdiction without intercantonal double taxation
BGE 4 I 523Amtliche Sammlung des Bundesgerichts (BGE) / Band I26.05.1877Dismissed
The Bank in Winterthur challenged a Zurich governmental decision imposing municipal taxes on its reserve fund and real estate, arguing that this created unconstitutional double taxation under Art. 46 BV. The Federal Court held that constitutionally relevant double taxation exists only when two or more cantons claim to tax the same object. As the case concerned solely the application of Zurich tax law to a taxpayer domiciled in Zurich, the court lacked competence and refused to enter into the complaint.
Art. 46 BV; double taxation and federal competence: Bundesgericht intervenes only where the tax laws of two or more cantons lay claim to the taxation of the same object, so that an intercantonal conflict exists. Where the dispute concerns exclusively the application of a cantonal tax law to a taxpayer domiciled in that canton, no constitutionally relevant double taxation is present and the federal court lacks jurisdiction to entertain the complaint (consid. 1).
kurrentin und mangelt daher dem Bundesgerichte die Kompe tenz, auf die Beschwerde einzutreten. Demnach hat das Bundesgericht erkannt: Die Beschwerde wird wegen Inkompetenz von der Hand ge wiesen.