Question juridique clé
Whether donations to an organization primarily pursuing cultic purposes are deductible for cantonal and federal tax.
Solution extraite
No. Donations to an organization that primarily pursues cultic purposes are not deductible.
Motifs extraits
The statutory donation deduction applies only to payments to tax-exempt bodies with public or exclusively charitable purposes, or to public bodies. The recipient was not tax-exempt on charitable grounds; cultic-purpose donations fall outside the deduction rule.