Key legal question
Whether part of the dividends paid to Y.________ had to be requalified as AHV-contributory salary.
Extracted holding
No. On the established facts, the dividends were genuine capital income and not concealed remuneration.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that, for shareholder-employees, only an obvious mismatch can justify deviating from the company’s allocation. Here the effective return on the economic value of the shares was not excessive, the salary for the holding company role was not obviously too low, the dividends were taxed as dividends, and the payout structure treated shareholders equally.