Questão jurídica principal
Whether the share purchase amounted to a taxable handover of real estate through transfer of participation rights in a real estate company.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The share purchase changed the civil and economic power of disposal over the land and therefore constituted a taxable handover under § 206 StG.
Fundamentação extraída
The transfer of the shares shifted economic control over the property from X. to the family shareholders through A AG. The statute expressly taxes transfers of participation rights in real estate companies.