Key legal question
Whether the federal appeal was admissible despite no appeal to the competent cantonal higher court.
Extracted holding
The appeal was inadmissible because the cantonal instance path had not been exhausted; the tax court was not a higher cantonal court within Art. 86 BGG.
Extracted reasoning
After the transitional period, Art. 86(2) BGG requires access to an upper cantonal court. Under Basel-Landschaft tax law, the proper cantonal remedy lay to the Cantonal Court, not directly to the Federal Supreme Court.