CELEX: 62009CA0489
Language: en
Date: 2011-01-27 00:00:00
Title: Case C-489/09: Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 27 January 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Beroep te Gent — Belgium) — Vandoorne NV v Belgische Staat (Sixth VAT Directive — Articles 11.C(1) and 27(1) and (5) — Taxable amount — Simplification measures — Manufactured tobacco — Tax labels — Single charge of VAT at source — Intermediate supplier — Total or partial non-payment of the price — Refusal to refund VAT)

12.3.2011   
            
            
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               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 80/5
            
         Judgment of the Court (Second Chamber) of 27 January 2011 (reference for a preliminary ruling from the Hof van Beroep te Gent — Belgium) — Vandoorne NV v Belgische Staat
   (Case C-489/09) (1)
   
   (Sixth VAT Directive - Articles 11.C(1) and 27(1) and (5) - Taxable amount - Simplification measures - Manufactured tobacco - Tax labels - Single charge of VAT at source - Intermediate supplier - Total or partial non-payment of the price - Refusal to refund VAT)
   2011/C 80/07
   Language of the case: Dutch
   
      Referring court
   
   Hof van Beroep te Gent
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Vandoorne NV
   
      Defendant: Belgische Staat
   
      Re:
   
   Reference for a preliminary ruling — Hof van Beroep te Gent — Interpretation of Articles 11.C(1) and 27 of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax: uniform basis of assessment (OJ 1977 L 145, p. 1) — Simplification measures — National legislation providing for VAT to be charged at source in the case of manufactured tobacco imported, acquired or produced within the country, precluding a reduction in the basis of assessment for taxpayers who have paid tax on those products
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   Articles 11.C(1) and 27(1) and (5) of Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC of 17 May 1977 on the harmonisation of the laws of the Member States relating to turnover taxes — Common system of value added tax: uniform basis of assessment, as amended by Council Directive 2004/7/EC of 20 January 2004, must be interpreted as not precluding national legislation, such as that at issue in the main proceedings, which, by providing, for the purposes of simplifying the procedure for charging value added tax and of combating tax evasion or avoidance in regard to manufactured tobacco, for the levying of that tax by means of tax labels, in a single charge and at source, from the manufacturer or importer of those products, excludes intermediate suppliers operating at a subsequent stage in the supply chain from the right to obtain reimbursement of value added tax in the event of non-payment by the purchaser of the price for those products.
   
      (1)  OJ C 37, 13.02.2010.