A decision of the Federal Tax Court (BFH) concerning the business activities of supervisory board members and the corresponding value added tax (VAT) treatment concludes that a member of a supervisory board who is not subject to risk of payment because of non-variable fixed remuneration, is not active as a trader and is not subject to being invoiced for VAT.
Source: KPMG
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