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Umsatzsteuer Newsletter 04/2013
VAT deduction and legitimate ex-pectation – the ECJ continues its business-friendly jurisdiction
On 31 January 2013 the European Court of Justice has passed two more judgments in cases regarding legitimate expectation when deducting VAT. Principally, the customer has the right to deduct VAT even if the tax authority assumes that the supplier has not carried out any supply. If the tax authority wants to deny the deduction of VAT, even in such cases it is for the tax authority to prove that the customer knew or should have known about a tax fraud related to the supply.
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Umsatzsteuer Newsletter 03/2013
Deduction of input VAT by shareholders
The Supreme Tax Court’s V and XI Senate currently hold diverging views on VAT deduction by shareholders. While the XI Senate construes the European Court of Justice’s statements in the case of Polski Trawertyn quite widely, thereby making VAT deduction easier, the V Senate adheres to its restrictive interpretation. The European Court of Justice will have to clarify these interpretation issues.
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Umsatzsteuer Newsletter 02/2013
Tax evasion in the trading of CO2
It was not until the raid of the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) in December 2012 that everyone first started talking about CO2 emission certificate tax evasion. Tax, in an amount exceeding EUR 260m, is said to have been evaded. Six defendants were sentenced to long-term imprisonment following the Frankfurt am Main Regional Court’s first judgment. The Federal Court of Justice rejected the defendants‘ appeals. Further criminal proceedings are pending.
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