Question juridique clé
Whether the waiver of consulting fees constituted tax avoidance
Solution extraite
The arrangement was not tax avoidance because the taxpayer acted economically rationally in a third-party comparison and no abusive structure was shown.
Motifs extraits
A third party with both a private loan claim and a consulting-fee claim would also prefer loan repayment over taxable fee payment in an impaired company. The taxpayer had no duty to further finance the company beyond what he had already done.