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FS Tax Newsletter | August 2020

In this edition of the FS Tax newsletter we discuss two important judgments by the Court of Justice of the European Union in VAT cases: firstly, in the A Oy case, the Court established that co-lo ...

CJEU in A Oy case: co-location services do not constitute the leasing of immovable property, nor any other immovable property service

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 ...

Confirmation by CJEU in BlackRock case: a single management service is not partly VAT-exempt

On July 2, 2020 the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘CJEU’) rendered judgment in the BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Limited case (C-231/19). The CJEU concluded that a single fund managem ...

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 | April 2019

The first quarter of 2019 has come to an end and we are presenting our second FS Tax Newsletter for this year. In this newsletter, we have summarized the most recent tax-related developments in the FS ...

VAT exemption on individual investment management where funds are pooled

On November 8, 2018, the groundbreaking judgment that the Court of Appeal in Amsterdam had rendered on the VAT exemption for the management of special investment funds (SIFs), was published. ...

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