Introduction
The growing uncertainties about Pillar One’s success, coupled with the recent EU Council’s mandate to the Commission to submit an EU legislative proposal in case Pillar One fails, have…
Should services performed by a member of a board of directors towards the company of which s/he is a member be subject to VAT? This is a question that keeps many VAT legislators, authorities, and…
Customer’s status and capacity under EU VAT place of supply rules
Other than for attributing VAT personality to suppliers of goods or services, the concept of taxable persons is relevant for…
Value-Added Tax (VAT) is considered an efficient and neutral form of taxation. Yet, although its invoice-credit method and the system of fractioned payments make it a self-policing tax, the VAT can…
As it currently stands, the legal and policy framework for non-profit organisations and foundations within the European Union differ – in some cases slightly, in others significantly. This regularly…
The current state of play in the negotiations for an EU Pillar 2 Directive is that all but one Member State are on board. Hence, there is one “dissenting” Member State left. As unanimity is needed…
The very recent CJEU judgement in Berlin Chemie A. Menarini v Administraţia Fiscală pentru Contribuabili Mijlocii Bucureşti (Case C-333/20) ECLI:EU:C:2022:291, admirably examined by Giorgio Beretta…
A subsidiary cannot be a fixed establishment (FE) under EU VAT in (almost) any case. This is a (quite) reassuring takeaway for VAT businesses from the much-awaited decision by the Court of Justice of…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), by means of an Order in Case C-255/20 of 9 November 2021 [1], established the incompatibility with EU law, in particular with Directives 2008/118/EC…
