Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the in-kind contribution of the property to the newly formed company triggered real estate transfer tax despite unchanged shareholder ratios.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No transfer tax is due where the company is an investment company and the shareholders' participation ratios correspond to their former ownership shares in the property.
Extrahierte Begründung
A reorganization into a pure investment company does not create an economically independent property ownership separate from the shareholders; the economic control over the land remains unchanged.