Dutch Supreme Court judgment on the crediting of dividend withholding tax

On January 19, 2024 the Dutch Supreme Court clarified the rules applying to the crediting of dividend withholding tax for corporate income tax purposes.

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NieuwsFlits WOZ en lokale belastingen – 1st quarter 2022

March 24, 2022
De Nieuwsbrief WOZ, lokale belastingen besteedt aandacht aan interessante ontwikkelingen en rechtspraak en verschijnt twee keer per jaar. Hierbij presenteren wij u de tweede editie van 2021  ...
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Amendment of VAT policy statement: broader application of asset management exemption

November 3, 2021
On November 2, 2021, the updated Specific State Supervision Policy Statement of the Deputy Minister of Finance was published. The updating of the original policy statement was necessary due to Supreme ...
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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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Also the acquisition of only the legal ownership of shares in real estate legal entities is subject to real estate transfer tax

April 13, 2021
The Supreme Court based its conclusion on a formal interpretation of the term ‘interest’ in the Legal Transactions Taxation Act and thus ruled differently to the Court of Appeals ‘s-Hertogenbosch, whi ...
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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 A Oy case: co-location services do not constitute the leasing of immovable property, nor any other immovable property service

July 3, 2020
On July 2, 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the A Oy case (C-215/19). The case concerned whether co-location services must be regarded as the leasing of im ...
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Possibility to recover VAT on running costs for vacant property extended

June 30, 2020
On June 26, 2020 the Supreme Court ruled that the VAT on running costs (‘instandhoudingskosten’) for a vacant office building is deductible, even if the owner cannot prove, on the basis of objective i ...
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Transfer of (short-term) leased building by a developer not a transfer of a going concern for VAT purposes

May 15, 2020
In its judgment of May 15, 2020, the Supreme Court upheld the decision by the Court of Appeals. The building in question was leased on a VAT-exempt basis. As a result of this judgment, parties will be ...
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New preliminary ruling question about the ‘fixed establishment’ concept for VAT purposes

April 1, 2020
On December 20, 2019 the Austrian Bundesfinanzgericht asked the Court of Justice of the European Union for a preliminary ruling on the concept of a ‘fixed establishment’ in the Titanium Ltd case (C-93 ...
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VAT recovery based on actual use permitted for bank

March 30, 2020
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 ...
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Acquisition of only the legal ownership of shares in real estate legal entities is not subject to real estate transfer tax

March 4, 2020
The judgment rendered by the Court of Appeals ‘s-Hertogenbosch could also be important in practice with regard to shares in real estate legal entities that are acquired by investment funds without leg ...
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Supreme Court: 2% real estate transfer tax more likely on offices converted to apartments

December 4, 2019
This is a favorable outcome for the real estate market. The acquisition of (an apartment right in) a converted building intended for residential use is more likely to be subject to 2% rather than 6% r ...
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