Questão jurídica principal
Whether the full unpaid shareholder loan constituted a hidden distribution taxable as income.
Decisão extraída
Yes. The entire irrecoverable loan amount of CHF 143,557 was a hidden distribution and not just CHF 63,557.
Fundamentação extraída
The payments and the resulting receivable had to be distinguished. If the underlying payments were truly business-related, they should have been booked as expenses; instead, the company capitalized them as a receivable. For the loan transaction itself, the Third-party test failed in full, and later reliance on a supposed business purpose or set-off was inconsistent and impermissible.