Important judgment on tax classification of financial instrument

On May 17, 2024 the Dutch Supreme Court rendered an important judgment on the tax qualification of a financial instrument that was issued by a company established in France in 2007. It concerned the ‘obligation remboursable en actions’ (hereinafter: ORA). The question was whether the instrument had to be regarded as equity (capital) or debt capital (loan) for the purposes of the Corporate Income Tax Act 1969. Although the dispute focused on the question whether the costs related to the issue of the instrument were allocable to a Dutch permanent establishment of the French company, the Supreme Court judgment potentially has a much broader scope.

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Group company not a fixed establishment for VAT purposes, but CJEU has left the door open

April 11, 2022
The CJEU provided more guidance on the circumstances in which the human and technical resources of an independent legal entity could result in a separate fixed establishment.
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Report of the Conduit Companies Committee

November 26, 2021
The report contains 15 recommendations, divided into six tax and nine non-tax policy options. At the same time, the Deputy Minister of Finance sent the government’s response to this report to the Lowe ...
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Without own staff, no fixed establishment for VAT purposes in the case of let property

June 22, 2021
On June 3, 2021 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the Titanium Ltd case (case no. C-931/19). The CJEU ruled that a foreign taxable person that does not have its ...
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New policy statement on VAT fixed establishments

January 14, 2021
The policy statement, among other things, lays down the Dutch viewpoint on the concept of a fixed establishment and the VAT treatment of transactions between a head office and a fixed establishment.
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New questions to CJEU: towards a broader concept of fixed establishment for VAT purposes?

October 9, 2020
A Romanian Court recently sought a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU”) about the concept of fixed establishment for VAT purposes in the Berlin Chemie case (C-33 ...
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CJEU in Dong Yang case: subsidiary could be a fixed establishment for VAT purposes

May 7, 2020
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 ...
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Advocate General at CJEU in Dong Yang VAT case

November 15, 2019
On November 14, 2019 Advocate General Kokott rendered her Opinion in the Dong Yang Electronics case (C-547/18). 
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