Key legal question
Whether the state tax appeal was admissible before the Federal Supreme Court.
Extracted holding
The ordinary administrative-law appeal was inadmissible for the 1999 state tax period and could only be treated as a constitutional complaint.
Extracted reasoning
For cantonal tax periods before 2001, Art. 73 StHG did not yet open administrative-law appeal review before the Federal Supreme Court, even if cantonal law provided such a remedy.