Key legal question
Whether the Geneva 1992 tax assessment could be revised on the basis of alleged new facts and evidence.
Extracted holding
No revision was available because the losses were known to the taxpayer when incurred and could have been raised in the ordinary assessment procedure; the later legal qualification as a professional securities trader was not a new fact.
Extracted reasoning
Revision under Arts. 55-56 LPFisc requires genuinely new decisive facts or evidence. The taxpayer had to claim the 1991 losses already during the original procedure and could not wait for the trader status to be confirmed. The challenged result was therefore not arbitrary.