Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the transfer of majority shares in a real-estate company as an advance inheritance is subject to reduced handänderungssteuer.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. The transfer constitutes a taxable economic transfer of real estate rights, and because it was made to descendants as an advance inheritance, the reduced rate applies.
Extrahierte Begründung
The statute taxes economic transfers, including transfer of participation rights in real-estate companies. An advance inheritance does not exclude transfer tax, but the statutory descendant reduction halves the ordinary rate.