- The Italian Supreme Court held that an Italian VAT-registered reseller buying goods from a German supplier and selling them to Italian end consumers must treat the transaction as an intra-EU purchase subject to reverse charge in Italy.
- The reseller is also required to charge VAT on the subsequent sale to the final Italian consumers.
- The Court rejected the argument that the final sale was outside the scope of Italian VAT because the goods were still in Germany at the time of sale.
- It ruled that the whole transaction must be assessed as a single, unitary economic operation.
- The Court noted two possible VAT treatments: VAT registration in Germany, or an Italian purchase via reverse charge followed by a taxable domestic resale.
Source: eutekne.info
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