Hidden profit distribution in forced real estate sale

ATA/602/1997Cour de justice / Verwaltungskammer07.10.1997Confirmed

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Omnilex-Zusammenfassung

A company sold real estate under pressure from its bank. The court held that the part of the sale gain transferred to a shareholder without genuine consideration had to be treated as a gratuitous benefit and thus as taxable net profit. The bank's pressure to sell did not change the tax characterization of the diverted amount.

Omnilex-Regeste

LCP.66 litt.h; hidden distribution of profits in the context of a forced sale of company real estate. Even where a bank compels the sale of an immovable asset, any part of the realization gain diverted to a shareholder without genuine counter-performance constitutes a gratuitous benefit and is therefore taxable net profit. The economic substance of the transfer is decisive; external pressure to liquidate the asset does not exclude the existence of a concealed distribution if the shareholder receives a benefit attributable to corporate assets without adequate consideration.

Gesamter Gesetzestext

Descripteurs

IMPOT; BENEFICE NET; IMPOT SUR LE CAPITAL; CALCUL; DISTRIBUTION DISSIMULEE DE BENEFICES; ASSUJETTISSEMENT(IMPOT); REVENU ACQUIS EN COMPENSATION(DROIT FISCAL); REVENU IMMOBILIER(EN GENERAL); FIN

Normes

LCP.66 litt.h

Résumé

Quand bien même une banque impose la vente d'un immeuble appartenant à une société, toute partie de bénéfice qu'en est distrait au profit d'un des actionnaires sans véritable contre-prestation de sa part doit être considéré comme prestation gratuite, soit comme un bénéfice net imposable.

Schlagwörter

taxationnet profitcapital taxhidden profit distributiongratuitous benefitshareholder benefitreal estate saletaxable income

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Kernrechtsfrage

Whether the amount diverted to a shareholder in connection with the forced sale of a company property constitutes taxable hidden profit distribution.

Extrahierter Entscheid

Yes. Even if the sale was imposed by the bank, any portion of the gain paid to a shareholder without real consideration is a gratuitous benefit and therefore taxable net profit.

Extrahierte Begründung

The decisive point is not the bank's pressure to sell, but whether the shareholder received a benefit from the company's realization of value without providing equivalent counter-performance. Such a transfer is economically equivalent to a concealed distribution of profits.

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