Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the costs of rebuilding the property's access installations are deductible maintenance expenses or non-deductible investment costs.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The works were only partly deductible: replacing access installations because of dependence on a neighbor's parcel created a substantial value-adding element, so the costs were not wholly maintenance expenses.
Extrahierte Begründung
Although repairs and equivalent replacements may be deductible, the existing access arrangement was burdened by an original disadvantage: dependence on the neighboring owners. Rebuilding the access removed that dependency and therefore at least partly improved the property's value. In such mixed cases only the maintenance portion may be deducted.