- Finland’s Finance Ministry says VAT rules for sports services are hard to clarify through law changes, and the VAT system is a poor tool for promoting exercise.
- The main problem is the unclear boundary between coached sports taxed at 13.5% and general sports instruction taxed at 25.5%.
- Two options were studied: broaden the reduced VAT rate to cover more sports services, or abolish the reduced rate entirely.
- Broadening the reduced rate could help but would not remove all interpretation issues; removing it would solve boundary problems but was widely opposed.
- The report concludes that even with legal changes, many disputes would still need to be settled by tax authority guidance or court rulings.
Source: vm.fi
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