Uitspraak
RECHTBANK ZEELAND-WEST-BRABANT
1.Ontstaan en loop van het geding
2.Feiten
- [B SA] ’s model takes into account individual growth rates. However, the production prognoses are made at stand level by using as input the average stand Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) and individual volume of the last inventory. This could generate distortions.
- Although [B SA] has been performing constant analysis and updates in their growth model, there are still a lack of data regarding Teak growth patterns, due to new genetic material provenance, improvement in management regimes, and forestry tending.
[B SA] informed that the model considers a deduction of 8% of the wood production (…). During the field visit, PSC encountered evidence that would suggest higher figures in terms of commercial losses in relation to assortment downgrading (…). Hence, a specific study regarding this issue should be undertaken.
- As [B SA] has not yet started to commercialize thicker logs, as the market for such logs lacks transparency, and as prices for native teak represent a very imperfect proxy for prices of planted teak, PSC is not in a position to ascertain [B SA] ’s price assumptions. Given the key contribution of wood with a diameter of more than 30 cm in the NPV of the project, PSC would thus recommend that a specific market analysis be carried out.
- The long term price increase in real terms of 2 to 4% annually premise is judged reasonable by PSC in view of growing demand and stagnant supply. Nonetheless, expectations of price increases by 9 to 15% per year in each of 2012 and 2013 may be over-optimistic.
- [B SA] has assumed a reduction of the total exportation cost in real terms of 3% per year during the period from 2012 tot 2021 based on economies of scale and improved transport infrastructure. PSC believes that such a reduction could be threatened by an increase in worldwide shipping costs as such cost are currently at an historical low.”
“De inspecteur heeft bij het vaststellen van de aanslagen over de belastingjaren 2009 en 2010 de waarde van de beleggingen vastgesteld zoals is opgenomen in onderdeel 3, pagina 4 van mijn verweerschrift. Gebleken is dat deze waarden onjuist zijn. (…) De gemiddelde rendementsgrondslag in box 3 moet in 2009 worden verminderd met € 28.108 en in 2010 met € 39.272. Ik concludeer dat de bestreden uitspraken moeten worden vernietigd en dat het belastbare inkomen in box 3 over 2009 verminderd moet worden met € 1.125 en het belastbaar inkomen in box 3 over 2010 verminderd moet worden met € 1.570.”
“Dan is in de pleitnota de verkeerde tabel gebruikt. Het zou tabel 2 (van bijlage 12 van het verweerschrift) moeten zijn.”
“The wood production flow was provided by the client, and was not analysed here. It is the object of another report prepared for [B SA] .”
- For each assortment, the wood sales prices serving as basis for projections of future prices are within the range practiced by [B SA] in 2014, although it is above the average weighted by volume sold for assortments with a diameter above 25 cm.
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- For higher diameter logs which are all exported, the model projected a real appreciation of prices. This is based on [B SA] ’s expectations that it can expand its sales in China and Vietnam, where it twill be able to achieve higher prices for its certified wood than in India, which is its main export market currently. However, no evidence was presented to support such expectations.
3.Geschil
4.Beoordeling van het geschil
Op grond van het derde lid wordt, indien de waarde van een bezitting of schuld op de peildatum niet kan worden bepaald, die waarde bepaald op het naastbij gelegen tijdstip waarop dat wel mogelijk is.
expectations of price increases by 9 to 15% per year in each of 2012 and 2013 may be over-optimistic)en ‘thicker logs’ (“
PSC is not in a position to ascertain [B SA] ’s price assumptions. Given the key contribution of wood with a diameter of more than 30 cm in the NPV of the project, PSC would thus recommend that a specific market analysis be carried out”).
5.Proceskosten
6.Beslissing
- verklaart de beroepen gegrond;
- vernietigt de uitspraken op bezwaar;
- vermindert de aanslag IB/PVV 2009 tot een berekend naar een belastbaar inkomen uit sparen en beleggen van € 3.470 met handhaving van de overige elementen;
- vermindert de aanslag IB/PVV 2010 tot een berekend naar een belastbaar inkomen uit sparen en beleggen van € 4.305 met handhaving van de overige elementen;
- vermindert de beschikkingen heffingsrente dienovereenkomstig;
- gelast dat de inspecteur het door belanghebbende betaalde griffierecht van € 45 aan deze vergoedt.
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