- The BFH ruled that a non-profit sports club provides taxable services to its members in exchange for membership fees.
- This contradicts administrative practice, which considered such services either not subject to VAT or VAT-exempt under § 4 Nr. 22 b UStG.
- The case involved a club that built an artificial turf field and claimed input VAT deduction, which the tax office denied, treating membership fees as VAT-exempt.
Source: datenbank.nwb.de
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