- The EU VAT Committee challenges Italy’s claim that data-for-access social media services are VAT-taxable.
- The Committee maintains its 2018 guidance that current EU VAT law does not support taxing user data exchanged for free platform access.
- Italy’s €900m VAT assessment on Facebook, LinkedIn, and X prompted the Committee’s response.
- The Committee concedes VAT may apply in narrowly defined cases, such as when platforms restrict functionality based on personal data permissions.
Source: vatcalc.com
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