Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the cantonal land-registry fee had a sufficient formal legal basis for taxing the property transfer caused by the corporate transformation.
Decisione estratta
Yes. The cantonal tariff provisions were broad enough to cover the transfer of immovable property by universal succession, regardless of whether the underlying transaction was onerous or gratuitous.
Motivazione estratta
The tax targeted the civil-law transfer of real property rights as such, not the contractual cause or economic substance of the transformation. Therefore the challenged provisions supplied a sufficient legal basis under the legality principle.