- Selling a car to a shareholder at an artificially low price can constitute abuse of law for VAT purposes.
- Multiple transactions are not required to establish abuse of law; a single transaction with an abnormally low price suffices.
- Both the District Court and the Court of Appeal found that X BV’s sale qualified as abuse of law.
- Advocate General Ettema advises the Supreme Court to dismiss X BV’s appeal, referencing the Weald Leasing case.
- An abnormally low price, not economically justified and below market value, is quickly seen as abuse.
Source: taxlive.nl
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