Questão jurídica principal
Whether the payment received by the taxpayer from the simple partnership constituted extraordinary income taxable under the annual tax for the 1998 transitional period.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The payment was proven to be remuneration for the taxpayer's services in the partnership context and, because of its size and exceptional character compared with prior years, qualified as extraordinary income.
Fundamentação extraída
The court held that a partner may also have separate contractual relations with a simple partnership as with third parties. The payment had a contractual basis, was booked accordingly, and no other payment reason was shown. Given the exceptional amount and absence of comparable prior earnings, a presumption of non-ordinary income arose, which the taxpayer failed to rebut.