Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the 2009 impairment on the shareholding was tax-deductible for direct federal tax.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The taxpayer did not prove a commercially justified impairment; the valuation method used by the lower courts was not arbitrary and showed no warranted write-down.
Extrahierte Begründung
The courts accepted a consolidated valuation using the practical/median method and found the shareholding remained valuable. The taxpayer's loss evidence was influenced by a self-created super dividend and did not demonstrate a genuine impairment at year-end 2009.