Key legal question
Whether the tenants' association qualified for tax exemption as a public-benefit or ideational association
Extracted holding
No. Its main purpose and activity were directed primarily to member-oriented self-help and discounted services, not to a predominant public-benefit or purely ideational purpose.
Extracted reasoning
Although the association had some ideational elements, its central aim of improving tenants' financial position and its main legal-advice services were primarily for members. The low membership fee made the services a self-help arrangement. This excluded predominant charity and ideational character under cantonal law and public-benefit status under federal law.