62020CO0573_INF
Order of the Court (Sixth Chamber) of 14 April 2021 – Casa di Cura Città di Parma
(Case C‑573/20) (
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(Reference for a preliminary ruling – Articles 53(2) and 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court – Taxation – Common system of value added tax (VAT) – Sixth Directive 77/388/EEC – Article 17(2)(a) – Mixed taxable person – Deductible proportion – Public or private health structures carrying out exempt activities – National legislation excluding the deduction of VAT relating to the purchase of goods or services used for the requirements of those exempt activities)
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Harmonisation of fiscal legislation – Common system of value added tax – Deduction of input tax – Origin and scope of the right to deduct – Goods and services used for the purposes of the taxable person’s taxable transactions – Public or private health structures carrying out tax-exempt activities – Refusal to deduct tax on the purchase of goods or services used for the requirements of those exempt activities – Whether permissible
(Council Directive 77/388, Art. 17(2)(a))
(see paras 20-23, 25-27, operative part)
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Questions referred for a preliminary ruling – Admissibility – Questions referred without sufficient information on the factual and legislative context – Manifest inadmissibility
(Art. 267 TFEU; Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice, Art. 53(2))
(see paras 32-34, 36)
Operative part
Article 17(2)(a) of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the harmonization of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes – Common system of value added tax: uniform basis of assessment, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation which does not permit the deduction of input value added tax (VAT) paid for the purchase of goods and services used for the requirements of exempt activities and which provides, consequently, that the right of a mixed taxable person to deduct VAT is calculated on the basis of a proportion corresponding to the ratio of the amount of the transactions in respect of which there is a right to deduct and the total amount of the transactions carried out over the course of the year concerned, including the exempt medical-healthcare services.
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)	OJ C 35, 1.2.2021.