Questione giuridica chiave
Whether medical transport costs are deductible as illness expenses for cantonal tax 2003.
Decisione estratta
Transport costs to reach medical treatment are not, as a rule, deductible illness expenses; they are general living expenses unless exceptional health conditions prevent use of ordinary transport.
Motivazione estratta
The court interpreted illness expenses narrowly under harmonized tax law and cantonal law. Medical transport is only indirectly connected with treatment and is difficult to distinguish from ordinary mobility expenses; the taxpayer also failed to prove the necessary factual link and necessity.