Question juridique clé
Whether the cantonal minimum property tax on land owned by the company was arbitrary because the statutory business-use exemption should have applied.
Solution extraite
The cantonal court could reasonably hold that a rented-out property without the company's own operating presence in the canton did not qualify as a business used mainly to conduct the company's operations.
Motifs extraits
For periodic taxation, 'business' is narrower than in restructuring law. The company had no operating establishment in Appenzell I.Rh. and merely leased the property to its parent company, so the exception for land on which the taxpayer mainly conducts its business did not apply.