Key legal question
Whether the Solothurn taxation for 2007 violated the prohibition on intercantonal double taxation by offsetting a Bern real-estate gain against loss carryforwards.
Extracted holding
The complaint against Solothurn was upheld; the case had to be remitted because the tax treatment depended on unresolved facts about the taxpayer's status and the nature of the Bern properties.
Extracted reasoning
If the Bern properties were private assets, Bern's gain tax was fine but Solothurn could not tax the gain again through loss offset. If they were business assets, the allocation rules for business real estate gains and losses had to be examined. The factual basis was insufficient to decide.