Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the appellant was entitled to cantonal legal aid and waiver of the cost advance.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The appeal against the refusal of legal aid was hopeless because the taxpayer had not remedied the missing cooperation by filing the tax return with the objection, so the loss risk clearly outweighed any chance of success.
Extrahierte Begründung
Under Art. 29(3) BV and § 35(2) aVRPG, legal aid requires a non-hopeless claim. In tax appeal against an assessment by discretion, the taxpayer must generally cure the omitted cooperation at the objection stage. The appellant did not engage with the lower court's reasoning and showed no objective reason why the tax return could not have been filed earlier.