Key legal question
Whether the company could use the declaration procedure instead of paying withholding tax on the liquidation surplus.
Extracted holding
No. The beneficiaries were not shown to be domiciled in Switzerland at the tax due date, so the conditions for the declaration procedure were not met.
Extracted reasoning
The liquidation surplus became exigible only at the end of the liquidation. Because the domicile condition for refund eligibility was not established, the exceptional declaration procedure under the withholding tax rules was unavailable.