ollowing up on the ECJ, also the Federal Fiscal Court had already ruled in 2019 that supervisory board members who only receive a fixed remuneration do not qualify as entrepreneurs within the meaning of the German VAT Act (i.e. “taxable person” as per the VAT
Directive 2006/112/EC). The tax authorities have now adopted the case law on remuneration risk with a letter from the Federal Ministry of Finance dated 8 July 2021.
Source: WTS
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