Kernrechtsfrage
Whether repayment of WEG basic rent subsidy advances plus interest counts as acquisition-related expense or value-enhancing expense for property gains tax.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. The repayment was sufficiently connected with the acquisition and, alternatively, with the lifting of a public-law property burden, so it had to be deducted as an expense in computing the property gain.
Extrahierte Begründung
The Bund effectively enforced the assumption of the WEG-based repayment obligation; the burden followed the property and reduced its value until repayment. It would be inappropriate for cantonal tax authorities to disregard a public-law obligation that the federal housing authority imposed and that the taxpayer satisfied.