Key legal question
Whether the taxpayer was entitled to deferred taxation on the real-estate gain under Art. 12 para. 3 let. e LHID and Art. 58 para. 1 let. e LCdir
Extracted holding
No. The house no longer qualified as an habitation having durably and exclusively served as the taxpayer's own principal residence when sold; the seven-year gap also defeated the required appropriate replacement period.
Extracted reasoning
The exemption is interpreted restrictively and applies only to a principal residence, not a secondary home. By 2008 the property had become a secondary residence; in any event, waiting seven years between leaving the property and selling it made the statutory replacement deadline ineffective.