- The Swedish Supreme Administrative Court held that compensation paid to Gothenburg Municipality under a development agreement is not consideration for a service and is therefore outside the scope of VAT.
- The court found no direct link or reciprocal legal relationship between the municipality’s actions and the developer’s payment; the developer mainly benefited from the detailed development plan, not from a taxable municipal service.
- Construction/design/relaying of public water and sewerage mains was not a service requested by the developer, and the developer received no rights in the new mains.
- Adoption of a detailed development plan is a unilateral public authority act and cannot itself constitute a VAT-taxable service.
- The ruling was issued under the old VAT Act, but the same result should apply under the current Swedish VAT Act.
Source: schjodt.com
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