CELEX: 62017CN0449
Language: en
Date: 2017-07-26 00:00:00
Title: Case C-449/17: Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany) lodged on 26 July 2017 — A & G Fahrschul-Akademie GmbH v Finanzamt Wolfenbüttel

2.10.2017   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 330/8
            
         Request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany) lodged on 26 July 2017 — A & G Fahrschul-Akademie GmbH v Finanzamt Wolfenbüttel
   (Case C-449/17)
   (2017/C 330/10)
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesfinanzhof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: A & G Fahrschul-Akademie GmbH
   
      Defendant: Finanzamt Wolfenbüttel
   
      Questions referred
   
   
               1.
            
            
               Does the concept of school or university education in Article 132(1)(i) and (j) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax cover driving school tuition to acquire category B and category C1 driving licences?
            
         
               2.
            
            
               If the answer to question 1 is in the affirmative:
               Can the applicant be recognised as an organisation with similar objects for the purposes of Article 132(1)(i) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax on the basis of the provisions on the driving instructor examination and the issue of a driving instruction and driving school licence in the Law on driving instructors (Gesetz über das Fahrlehrerwesen) of 25 August 1969 (Bundesgesetzblatt I 1969, 1336), last amended by the Law of 28 November 2016 (Bundesgesetzblatt I 2016, 2722, Fahrlehrergesetz, Law on driving instructors), and of the public interest in the training of learner drivers to be safe, responsible and environmentally aware road users?
            
         
               3.
            
            
               If the answer to question 2 is in the negative:
               Does the term ‘tuition given privately by teachers’ contained in Article 132(1)(j) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax require that the taxable person be an individual trader?
            
         
               4.
            
            
               If the answers to questions 2 and 3 are in the negative:
               Is an instructor always providing tuition privately within the meaning of Article 132(1)(j) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax if he acts on his own account and at his own risk, or must further requirements be met to qualify as a private teacher?