Questão jurídica principal
Whether the appeal was admissible for tax period 2001 despite the cantonal instance not being final.
Decisão extraída
For tax period 2001, the challenged decision was not a cantonal final judgment, so the federal appeal was inadmissible on that point and had to be sent to the Zurich Administrative Court.
Fundamentação extraída
The harmonization rules on the cantonal instance chain applied from 2001 onward; therefore the correct cantonal appellate route had not been exhausted for that period.