CELEX: 62020CB0108
Language: en
Date: 2021-04-14 00:00:00
Title: Case C-108/20: Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 14 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Berlin-Brandenburg — Germany) — HR v Finanzamt Wilmersdorf (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice — Taxation — Value added tax (VAT) — Directive 2006/112/EC — Articles 167 and 168 — Right to deduct input VAT — Refusal — Fraud — Supply chain — Refusal of the right to deduct where the taxable person knew or should have known that, by his or her purchase, he or she was participating in a transaction connected to VAT fraud)

19.7.2021   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 289/17
            
         
      Order of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 14 April 2021 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Finanzgericht Berlin-Brandenburg — Germany) — HR v Finanzamt Wilmersdorf
      (Case C-108/20) (1)
      
      (Reference for a preliminary ruling - Article 99 of the Rules of Procedure of the Court of Justice - Taxation - Value added tax (VAT) - Directive 2006/112/EC - Articles 167 and 168 - Right to deduct input VAT - Refusal - Fraud - Supply chain - Refusal of the right to deduct where the taxable person knew or should have known that, by his or her purchase, he or she was participating in a transaction connected to VAT fraud)
      (2021/C 289/24)
      Language of the case: German
      
         Referring court
      
      Finanzgericht Berlin-Brandenburg
      
         Parties to the main proceedings
      
      
         Applicant HR
      
         Defendant: Finanzamt Wilmersdorf
      
         Operative part of the order
      
      Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax must be interpreted as not precluding a national practice whereby the right to deduct input value added tax (VAT) paid is refused to a taxable person who has acquired goods having been the subject of input VAT fraud committed upstream in the supply chain and who knew or should have known of it, even though he or she did not actively participate in that fraud.
      
         (1)  OJ C 201, 15.6.2020.