Question juridique clé
Whether the 2008 declaration of the French property qualified as a first self-disclosure exempting the taxpayer from punishment under the newer law.
Solution extraite
No. The declaration did not clearly and unreservedly disclose years of prior non-declaration and therefore was not a valid self-disclosure.
Motifs extraits
A self-disclosure must be understandable by the tax authorities as such and must disclose the hidden tax factors concretely and without reservation. The wording used suggested only a correction for the prior year and did not reveal that the property had never been declared since acquisition.