Questione giuridica chiave
Whether the church tax violated freedom of religion and conscience because the husband was non-confessional and the couple lived outside Schaffhausen.
Decisione estratta
No violation; a mixed-confession marriage may be taxed by taking the spouse's confession into account, and the wife alone was treated as the tax subject.
Motivazione estratta
The court reaffirmed its case law that only a fraction of the full church tax may be charged where a family is confessionally mixed, but the non-member spouse's income may be considered because spouses form an economic unit.