Tax Newsletter 2014/1- Judgement against VAT laws
Tax Newsletter 2014/1- Judgement against VAT laws
In its judgment in case C-563/12 published on December 19, 2013, the European Court of Justice (“Court”) declared that the 90 day deadline of dispatching products as a precondition for the tax exemption of export sales ruled by the Hungarian VAT Act is contrary to the EU VAT Directive. Although the challenged point of the Hungarian VAT Act – especially in order to harmonize with the VAT Directive – was completed as of January 1, 2014, as a result of the mentioned judgment, there will be an opportunity to revise the former tax authority decisions.
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