Key legal question
Whether the partial partitions were exempt from mutation tax under Art. 9 lit. i LDMG because persons and shares allegedly did not change in substance.
Extracted holding
The exemption was not available: for each parcel, ownership changed and the appellant’s interest increased to full ownership.
Extracted reasoning
Mutation tax is levied on acquisition of legal ownership of each individual immovable. It was not arbitrary to assess each parcel separately and to treat the transfer of four parcels into exclusive ownership as taxable transfers.