Questão jurídica principal
Whether the allocation of financing costs to participation income violated equal treatment under the Geneva participation-relief rules.
Decisão extraída
No. The court held that the bank was not entitled to a special regime; the general proportional allocation of financing costs to assets was admissible and did not create unconstitutional inequality.
Fundamentação extraída
The statutory text did not require a bank-specific allocation method. The legislature intended to attenuate double economic taxation, not grant a full exemption. The bank's examples were not comparable, and banks were not shown to be in the same situation as other taxpayers in a constitutionally relevant sense.