Question juridique clé
Whether the spouses were entitled to the 30% minority-share discount for unlisted participations in wealth tax valuation.
Solution extraite
No. The discount may be refused where spouses together effectively control the companies and the minority status is only apparent.
Motifs extraits
The SSK valuation guide is not binding federal law but a guideline that may be deviated from when the concrete control situation makes the pauschal discount unjustified. Here the spouses jointly controlled the companies, so the participations had to be valued cumulatively without the minority discount.