Question juridique clé
Whether a child deduction was available for an adult child who had finished vocational training before the end of the tax period.
Solution extraite
No. The entitlement depends on the circumstances at the end of the tax period; because the son was no longer in education then, the child deduction was properly refused.
Motifs extraits
Section 34(2) StG/ZH ties the social deduction to the end-of-period situation. Applying a fixed cutoff in tax assessment is not arbitrary, and the statute expressly requires that the child still be in vocational training and mainly supported by the taxpayer.