- EU Member States must transpose the VAT Directive into national legislation
- ECJ rulings on VAT Directive can impact taxable persons
- Recent ECJ decision in Germany states no additional VAT liability for service providers who incorrectly overstate VAT on invoices to end consumers
- ECJ decision in Finanzamt Österreich case
- Plaintiff issued invoices with incorrect VAT amount, but correction was not possible for everyday service providers
- Plaintiff appealed and ECJ ruled they were not liable for overstated VAT as invoices were issued to end consumers who couldn’t deduct input VAT
- Purpose of VAT Directive is to prevent tax revenue losses from unjustified input VAT deductions
Source: riskandcompliance.freshfields.com
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