Kernrechtsfrage
Whether garden maintenance expenses for a self-used property are deductible as maintenance costs.
Extrahierter Entscheid
The disputed garden expenses were non-deductible living expenses or self-use operating costs, not maintenance costs.
Extrahierte Begründung
For self-used property, only costs directly connected with the taxable imputed rental value are deductible. Under Solothurn law, lawn mowing, flower cultivation and similar self-use operating costs are excluded; flowers, mower service, lawn fertilizing and fruit-tree care were therefore not deductible.