Question juridique clé
Whether litigation costs from disputes over the sale agreements were deductible as investment/management expenses.
Solution extraite
Only costs linked to securing or collecting investment income are deductible; the claimed costs largely related to asserting capital claims and were therefore not fully deductible.
Motifs extraits
Under § 39(1) StG and Art. 32(1) DBG, deductible management expenses must relate to taxable income from movable private assets. Process costs may qualify only insofar as they serve to secure or collect income, not to enforce capital claims or the asset itself. Allowing all claimed costs would stretch the concept of asset management beyond established federal case law.