Key legal question
Whether the taxpayers' development and sales constituted self-employed real estate dealing taxable as income.
Extracted holding
Yes. The project went beyond mere private wealth management and amounted to self-employed real estate dealing under federal and cantonal tax law.
Extracted reasoning
The taxpayers combined inheritance, purchase, subdivision, construction, and rapid sales of several units through a planned and systematic project aimed at profit. The scope, organization, and use of the profits to retain the remaining apartments showed an entrepreneurial activity.