Key legal question
Whether the taxable income for direct federal tax 1993/94 had to be corrected after recalculating sales proceeds and cost allocations.
Extracted holding
Yes. The taxable income for 1993/94 had to be reduced to CHF 326,018.
Extracted reasoning
The lower court had used incorrect sale prices in some transactions and had under-allocated costs for one combined sale. However, the court rejected the cantonal authority's attempt to worsen the outcome by switching to ground-register quota allocations, since this would create an impermissible reformatio in peius and was not clearly required by federal law.