Key legal question
Whether the lump-sum payment from tied self-provision (pillar 3a) was tax-exempt under cantonal law.
Extracted holding
No. Cantonal law did not provide a tax exemption for such 3a lump-sum benefits; the attempt to extend the statutory exemption by ordinance lacked legal basis.
Extracted reasoning
The exemption in StG § 32 Abs. 1 lit. c concerns only 2nd-pillar benefits used for buy-in into a tax-exempt occupational pension institution. The ordinance could not create a new exemption for pillar 3a, since the matter is governed by federal law.