Question juridique clé
Whether the Ticino tax authority could make adjustments to work-in-progress in the law firm for 2001/2002.
Solution extraite
No adjustment was justified; the reported valuation of work-in-progress was sustainable and there was no proven abusive deferral of billing.
Motifs extraits
Commercial law requires valuation at production cost, not billing value. The authority did not prove artificial delay in invoicing or insufficient capitalization.