Question juridique clé
Whether paid inheritance tax must be added to the acquisition cost for land gain tax on a later sale of inherited real estate
Solution extraite
No. For a tax-deferred inheritance transfer, only the last taxable acquisition and the statutory additions count; inheritance tax is not deductible as acquisition cost.
Motifs extraits
The StHG and Lucerne law treat inheritance as a tax-deferring transfer. The land gain tax must ignore the inheritance transfer for basis purposes, and inheritance tax is a different tax on a different object, so no offset is required or justified.