- The European General Court’s Advocate General issued an opinion in Case T-383/25 on import VAT for goods brought into the EU for repair and then re-exported.
- The case involved a Swiss resident who brought a sailing boat into Germany for repairs without customs clearance and later exported it again without using it in the EU.
- German customs assessed import VAT on the boat.
- The opinion says that, unless customs authorities grant retroactive authorization, EU VAT rules must be interpreted as allowing import VAT to apply in this situation.
Source: news.bloombergtax.com
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