Key legal question
Whether the cantonal court arbitrarily fixed the farm's book value at CHF 182,096.20 instead of CHF 189,683.20
Extracted holding
No arbitrariness was shown; the lower value followed from subtracting accumulated depreciation from the opening asset costs.
Extracted reasoning
The tax file itself showed opening asset costs of CHF 189,683.20 and depreciation of CHF 7,587.00; the arithmetic led to the book value upheld by the cantonal court.