Questão jurídica principal
Whether the capital tax for 5.10-31.12.2001 in a composition liquidation is a mass liability or a claim covered by the composition agreement.
Decisão extraída
The entire capital tax for the 2001 tax period is covered by the composition agreement and is not a mass liability.
Fundamentação extraída
Capital tax is a periodic tax whose legal basis is unaffected by the opening of insolvency-type proceedings. For such taxes, there is no statutory basis to split one unified tax claim into pre- and post-stay portions. Treating the post-stay part as a mass liability would improperly grant the state a preference and conflict with equal treatment of creditors.