Key legal question
Whether the voluntary return of UBS shares reduced taxable income for 2008
Extracted holding
The share return was economically linked to the exit payment and could in principle reduce income, but the amount and timing of the deduction required further factual clarification.
Extracted reasoning
A repayment need not rest on a clearly established civil-law claim to have income-reducing effect. What matters is whether, in the concrete circumstances, the repayment was not truly voluntary but made under sufficient external pressure and in close economic connection with the income. Here, the record was insufficient to fix the value of the share transfer and its temporal allocation.