Key legal question
How is the acquisition price determined when acquisition occurred more than 30 years earlier?
Extracted holding
The acquisition price is based on the property's market value 30 years earlier, determined by the statistical/comparative method as an objectified value, unless a higher acquisition price is proven.
Extracted reasoning
The court held this method to be established practice and suitable for the necessarily standardized valuation required by § 55 Abs. 4 StG. The authority relied on 21 comparable sales from 1987 and was entitled to use a value at the upper end of the comparison range.