Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court could reduce the refund of complementary property tax by 20% per year of ownership when mutation taxes were reprisable under Art. 269 LI/VD.
Extracted holding
Yes. The cantonal interpretation was sustainable because the statute’s economy requires the refund to be limited in the same proportion as the mutation tax reprise.
Extracted reasoning
A literal reading of Art. 129 LI/VD would largely neutralize the sanction mechanism of Art. 269 al. 5 LI/VD. The court accepted a concealed gap and filled it by linking the refund to the reduced reprise of mutation taxes.