Questione giuridica chiave
Whether Schwyz had to offset the company’s Zurich business loss against Schwyz property income to avoid intercantonal double taxation.
Decisione estratta
Yes. In light of the newer case law, the property canton must take account of the taxpayer’s overall economic capacity and may not ignore an uncompensated business loss when taxing the investment property income.
Motivazione estratta
The court extended its recent practice on avoiding allocation losses to a company’s investment property in a pure property canton. Although the property canton has exclusive taxing power over the property income and gain, that power is limited by the need to avoid an overall tax burden exceeding the taxpayer’s capacity.