Question juridique clé
Whether the share-sale agreement obliged the seller to reimburse the withholding tax paid after liquidation.
Solution extraite
No. The parties had contemplated the tax risk and reflected it in the sale price; in any event, the tax arose only after transfer of possession and was not covered by the contractual allocation.
Motifs extraits
The Federal Court upheld the canton court's factual finding of a concordant intent excluding seller liability. Alternatively, under objective interpretation, the clauses covered only taxes due at transfer or notified later for earlier periods, not a tax arising from a later liquidation decision by the buyer as sole shareholder.