Key legal question
Whether the sponsorship arrangement constituted a taxable exchange/tauschähnlicher Umsatz and how the consideration should be valued.
Extracted holding
The discounted ski passes and the advertising services formed a tauschähnlicher Umsatz; the advertising service could be valued derivatively by the difference between list price and discounted price.
Extracted reasoning
The parties were commercially active, the contracts described reciprocal performance, and both the entgeltlichkeitsvermutung and gleichwertigkeitsvermutung applied. No contractual basis or proof rebutted the presumptions, and the ski passes had an objectively determinable list price.