Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the fee for merely issuing a loss certificate in an arrest enforcement proceeding was excessive under the equivalence principle.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The fee had to be reduced because a charge of CHF 204,587.80 for a purely formal enforcement act was manifestly disproportionate to the state service rendered.
Extrahierte Begründung
The enforcement proceeds were only a relevant criterion for fee calculation, but in this case the act consisted essentially of an instruction to a bank. A fee of about CHF 204,000 no longer had any recognizable relation to the actual administrative effort and therefore violated the equivalence principle.