Questão jurídica principal
Whether the claimed CHF 150,000 business debt was sufficiently proven for federal direct tax purposes.
Decisão extraída
The debt was not proven with the required certainty and therefore could not be deducted.
Fundamentação extraída
Under Art. 126 LIFD the taxpayer bears the burden of substantiating deductible debts. The documents produced did not conclusively establish the source, transfer, or true creditors of the funds, especially given the foreign creditor context and lack of verifiable banking trace.