Question juridique clé
Whether the gain from the sale of the shareholding was taxable business-asset income or tax-free private capital gain.
Solution extraite
The shareholding belonged to business assets because it was used in a way that materially improved the taxpayer’s self-employed business results.
Motifs extraits
A participation is assigned to business assets when, in the overall circumstances, it is actually used to improve the business result of the taxpayer’s own enterprise. Here the taxpayer’s significant revenue from dealings with the company showed a substantial and targeted use of the participation to increase self-employed income.