Question juridique clé
Whether fees paid to A.________ and B.________ as board members were salary subject to AVS contributions.
Solution extraite
The fees were presumed to be salary from dependent employment and the company failed to rebut that presumption.
Motifs extraits
Under Art. 5 al. 2 LAVS and Art. 7 let. h RAVS, remuneration paid to corporate board members is generally part of the salary determinable unless it is shown to be unrelated to the board mandate. The company did not establish concrete independent consulting activities distinct from their administrative functions.