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Umsatzsteuer Newsletter 39/2021
Coalition agreement: Not too bad – from a VAT perspective
The coalition agreement has been sealed. The new federal government has made a real effort to modernise VAT (e-invoicing, reverse charge and import VAT) and, at the same time, to support activities for the common good (in-kind donations, supplies of educational services, inclusive businesses). It is just a pity that the long-awaited reform of the VAT group cannot be expected any time soon. However, we will keep trying.
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Umsatzsteuer Newsletter 38/2021
VAT fully chargeable at the time a supply is carried out – even in the case of instalment payments
The ECJ (case C-324/20) has ruled that, in the case of an instalment payment extending over five years, the respective VAT is chargeable at the time the supply of service is rendered. This decision differs from that made by the ECJ in the case of a player’s agent who was paid over three years for a supply of agency business services to a football club. However, the ECJ did not specify clear criteria for demarcation in this respect. In practice, it is recommended that full VAT be claimed from taxable persons entitled to input VAT deduction at the very outset of an instalment payment agreement.
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Umsatzsteuer Newsletter 37/2021
ECJ: Input VAT deduction only with invoice but without need for minimum mandatory information?
In its recent decision of 21.10.2021 – C-80/20, Wilo Salmson, the ECJ clarifies that a taxable person must have an invoice in order to claim an input VAT refund. However, the court also makes it clear that the concept of an invoice is to be understood very broadly. The ECJ distances itself, consciously or not, from the minimum mandatory information for the acceptance of an invoice entitling the recipient of a supply to deduct input VAT as laid down by the German Federal Fiscal Court (most recently in the ruling of 12.03.2020 - V R 48/1) and the German Ministry of Finance (letter of 18.09.2020).
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