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BGE 23 I 8 ΓÇó Double taxation after change of domicile and tax appeal deadlines
BGE 23 I 8Coletânea oficial do Tribunal Federal (BGE) / Volume I11 de jun. de 1896Partially Granted
Arnold Kaufmann appealed against Luzern authorities' refusal to review a 1896 tax assessment for his wife, who had moved from Gunzwil to Bern shortly before the assessment period. The Federal Court held that the cantonal appeal deadlines did not bind him because the relevant person was already outside the canton when notice was served. On the merits, the court found that taxing the wife in Luzern for the rest of 1896 after the change of domicile violated the federal prohibition of double taxation. It therefore allowed the appeal in part and reduced the tax to 7/366 of the amount claimed by Gunzwil.
Prohibition of double taxation; domicile and tax liability after change of residence; cantonal procedural time limits may not prevent federal review where the taxpayer is no longer domiciled in the taxing canton at service of the tax notice. If a person transfers domicile to another canton, the former canton may tax only for the period during which tax sovereignty existed; taxation for the subsequent period violates the federal ban on double taxation, irrespective of whether the other canton actually levies the tax. The court may reduce the assessment pro rata to the taxable period (consid. 2-3).
Bürger nur soweit verbindlich, als er der Steuerhoheit des Kan tons Luzern unterstehe. Für die Zeit vom 8. Januar bis Ende 1896 sei das Steuergesetz des Kantons Luzern, soweit es Mo biliarsteuern betreffe, für die Ehegatten Kaufmann nicht verbindlich. Das Bundesgericht zieht in Erwägung: