Key legal question
Whether the cantonal appellate court violated the right to be heard by not warning the taxpayers that they could not pursue a broader reduction than the one requested before the tax appeal commission.
Extracted holding
No. The appeal submission was sufficiently clear, and the authorities had no duty to alert the taxpayers to a supposed procedural mistake.
Extracted reasoning
The filing was expressly labeled as an appeal and clearly requested a reduction of the tax value by 40,000 to 50,000 francs; therefore, there was no defective pleading requiring correction, nor any obvious reason to assume the taxpayers still sought the earlier larger reduction.