Kernrechtsfrage
Whether omission of a private-use share for the company car made the annual accounts inauthentic for tax fraud purposes
Extrahierter Entscheid
Yes. Where a company car is used both commercially and privately in a non-negligible way, the failure to allocate any private share causes the accounts to falsely present private expenses as business expenses.
Extrahierte Begründung
Tax fraud under Art. 186 DBG is complete when an inauthentic document is used to deceive the tax authority. For company cars, private use must be allocated; this is not a matter of discretion except as to the amount. The vehicle here was regularly used privately, so full booking of leasing costs as business expenses was false.