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Cross-Border Care Services and VAT Exemption: Legal Clarification on Social Character Recognition

  • Decision dated 11 August 2025 regarding cross-border care services and VAT exemption
  • Case number V B 63/24
  • European Court of Justice reference ECLI:DE:BFH:2025:B.110825.VB63.24.0
  • Preceding case from Cologne Finance Court dated 25 September 2024 with case number 9 K 728/18
  • The revision is allowed to clarify the legal question about recognition as a social character institution under Article 132 of Directive 2006/112/EC
  • The question involves determining which member state’s law applies when the place of service and the business location are in different member states
  • The Senate refrains from presenting the facts and further reasoning

Source: bundesfinanzhof.de

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