Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal against the original tax assessments was admissible before the Federal Supreme Court
Decisão extraída
The requests directed at the original 29 August 2008 tax bills were inadmissible because only the cantonal appellate judgment could be challenged.
Fundamentação extraída
The devolutive effect of the cantonal appeal meant that the first-instance tax assessments were no longer open to direct federal appeal.