Question juridique clé
Whether the 2008 pension buyback of CHF 100,000 was deductible for federal direct tax and cantonal/communal tax despite a capital withdrawal within three years.
Solution extraite
No deduction was allowed because a capital benefit was paid within three years of the buyback, which generally makes the buyback abusive under Art. 79b(3) LPP.
Motifs extraits
The three-year rule already applied at the relevant time and concretizes the tax-law abuse doctrine; once a capital withdrawal occurs within three years, the deduction is generally refused without further examination of tax avoidance in the individual case.