Questão jurídica principal
Whether the cantonal tax value of the condominium share had to follow the 2002 purchase price rather than a capitalized rental valuation.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The actual arm's-length sale price paid in January 2002 reflected market value and had to be used for 2002 wealth tax.
Fundamentação extraída
Under Art. 14 LHID, assets are taxed at market value. Where a free-market transaction fixes that value, schematic cantonal valuation methods are subsidiary. The cantonal court arbitrarily disregarded the sale price by wrongly assuming a single seller and by failing to account for multiple comparable transactions with nearly identical unit prices.