Financial Services & Finance

CJEU in Dong Yang case: subsidiary could be a fixed establishment for VAT purposes

On May 7, 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the Dong Yang Electronics case (C-547/18). The case concerned whether a subsidiary may, for VAT purposes, consti ...

VAT recovery based on actual use permitted for bank

On March 27, 2020 the Court of Appeals Den Bosch rendered an interesting judgment about the recovery of VAT in a case concerning a financial institution. The Court ruled that the bank’s ‘actual use me ...

Advocate General at the CJEU in BlackRock VAT case: a single fund management service is, in principle, not partly VAT-exempt

On March 11, 2020 Advocate General (‘AG’) Pikamäe at the Court of Justice of the European Union rendered his Opinion in the BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited case (C-231/19). The AG conclud ...

FS Tax Newsletter | January 2020

Last year our first FS Tax Newsletter for 2019 discussed the CJEU judgment rendered in the Morgan Stanley case, concerning the right of a branch to recover input VAT if it (partially) provides support ...

FS Tax Newsletter | November 2019

In this edition we highlight the key aspects of the 2020 Tax Plan. We also focus on three important CJEU cases concerning the VAT payable on assignment of a debt recognized in enforcement proceedings, ...

Advocate General at CJEU in Dong Yang VAT case

On November 14, 2019 Advocate General Kokott rendered her Opinion in the Dong Yang Electronics case (C-547/18). 

Services related to the operation of ATMs not exempt from VAT

On October 3, 2019 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the Cardpoint GmbH case (case no. C-42/18) about the scope of the VAT exemption for transactions concerning ...

CJEU: VAT payable on assignment of a debt recognized in enforcement proceedings

On October 17, 2019, the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the Paulo Nascimento Consulting case (no. C-692/17) concerning the VAT treatment of the assignment of a de ...

VAT on services provided by a head office to its fixed establishment? Skandia 2.0

On October 30, 2019, the Swedish Supreme Court announced to refer to the European Court of Justice (‘CJEU’) the question whether services provided by a Danish head office to its fixed establishment in ...

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