- The court held that VAT assessments based on tax audits must generally be issued within 5 years from the end of the year when the deadline for filing the annual VAT return expires.
- A 10-year limitation period applies only if the tax authority later receives “supplementary evidence” it could not reasonably have known during the 5-year period.
- In this case, the 5-year period for the 2011 tax year started on 31.12.2012 and had already expired by the time the disputed acts were served in December 2019.
- The court found the 10-year period did not apply, because the audit information from the tax enforcement unit reached the tax office in 2017 and could have been used in time.
- The court accepted the taxpayer’s appeal.
Source: taxheaven.gr
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