- The Italian Supreme Court confirmed that a company taking over a municipality’s pre-existing loan debts as part of managing water service infrastructure can create an VAT-taxable consideration for services.
- Such debt assumption is included in the VAT taxable base under Article 13 of DPR 633/72, alongside other contractual payments.
- The Court rejected the view that repayment of loan installments is merely a transfer of money outside VAT.
- However, debt assumption is not separate consideration if those liabilities were already factored into the concession fees or financial terms.
- In short, old debts are VAT-relevant when they are an additional contractual benefit, not when they were already priced into the deal.
Source: eutekne.info
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