Key legal question
Whether the transfer of F. & G. AG shares to D. Holding AG constituted a taxable transposition.
Extracted holding
Yes. Transposition can also exist where several minority shareholders act together and, as a family unit, collectively control the acquiring company.
Extracted reasoning
The taxpayers and the wife together controlled D. Holding AG. The court relied on the shareholder agreement, repeated role exchanges, and the family context to infer coordinated action, even though the seller alone never held more than 40%.