Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal court violated the appellant's right to reply by deciding only four working days after receiving the tax authority's final submission with exhibits.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The appellant had not been given a sufficient opportunity to comment on the authority's last submission, so Article 29 Cst. was violated.
Fundamentação extraída
A party represented by counsel must still have enough time between service of a new submission and judgment to request a deadline or file observations. Here the authority's filing was transmitted only on 3 May 2012 and judgment was rendered on 9 May 2012, which was too soon.