Question juridique clé
Whether Aargau authorities could determine the heir’s liability for the claimed tax penalty.
Solution extraite
Yes. The claim was a public-law tax penalty, and the competent authorities were those of the canton whose law governed it.
Motifs extraits
Such claims are not ordinary civil debts but public-law penalty claims based on state sovereignty; therefore Art. 59 BV does not make them personal claims to be sued only at the defendant’s domicile.