Questão jurídica principal
Whether the CHF 100,000 payment and CHF 60,000 provision for shareholder-liability damages were deductible business expenses or provisions
Decisão extraída
No. Grossly negligent damages from corporate responsibility were not sufficiently connected to the taxpayer's professional activity and were therefore not deductible.
Fundamentação extraída
The damage claim stemmed from serious breaches of duty in managing the company; the risk of liability was not an ordinary, unavoidable business risk. The solidarity and settlement arguments did not change the taxpayer's own grossly negligent responsibility.