- Italy’s Supreme Court held that the 10% VAT rate for entertainment activities applies only to specific artistic performances, not broadly to all services connected to an event.
- For theater and similar shows, the reduced rate covers both organizer-audience transactions and “writing/booking” contracts between organizers and artists, but only when the service has a clear artistic character.
- The performance must be personal and artistically distinctive, requiring special intellectual or physical skills; purely technical or ancillary services do not qualify.
- The court found the evidence insufficient to prove whether the disputed 2007 services were artistic performances or merely technical execution of scenes created by others.
- These rules applied only up to 2017, because Law 205/2017 revised the regime effective January 1, 2018.
Source: eutekne.info
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