Question juridique clé
Whether part of the substance dividends paid to the shareholder-manager had to be requalified as AHV-pensionable employment income.
Solution extraite
No. Although the salary was too low and the dividend yield high, the earlier years when the reserves were built up had featured at least industry-standard wages, so the later distribution of retained earnings was not to be requalified.
Motifs extraits
Substance dividends may in principle be examined under the 'Nidwalden practice', but the decisive comparison is between salary and dividend in the relevant years. Here, later distributions of previously accumulated reserves would indirectly burden gains that had earlier been earned with adequate remuneration and were not subject to requalification.