Kernrechtsfrage
Which tax assessment is decisive for scholarship eligibility when circumstances changed since the previous year?
Extrahierter Entscheid
The 1982 tax assessment had to be used, because the scholarship rules allow departure from the previous year's final assessment when changed circumstances exist.
Extrahierte Begründung
The department's practice of requiring a provisional tax reassessment was only a permissible simplification, not a strict legal prerequisite. The scholarship ordinance uses the listed grounds as examples and leaves room for discretion, including comparable cases not covered by the tax law's exhaustive grounds. The applicant's disability-related income reduction was such a special case.