Key legal question
Whether consulting expenses booked by B.________ AG constituted a hidden profit distribution taxable to the shareholder.
Extracted holding
The consulting expenses were properly treated as a hidden profit distribution and attributable to the taxpayer as a pecuniary benefit.
Extracted reasoning
The services were economically connected to the share sale and, given the close relationship and circumstances of the transaction, were not solely corporate expenses. The prior corporate assessment was final, and any hearing defect was cured in the objection proceedings.