CELEX: 62012CA0300
Language: en
Date: 2014-01-16 00:00:00
Title: Case C-300/12: Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 January 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany)) — Finanzamt Düsseldorf-Mitte v Ibero Tours GmbH (Value-added tax — Operations of travel agents — Granting of price discounts to customers — Determination of the taxable amount for services provided as part of an intermediary activity)

22.3.2014   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 85/4
            
         Judgment of the Court (First Chamber) of 16 January 2014 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Bundesfinanzhof (Germany)) — Finanzamt Düsseldorf-Mitte v Ibero Tours GmbH
   (Case C-300/12) (1)
   
   (Value-added tax - Operations of travel agents - Granting of price discounts to customers - Determination of the taxable amount for services provided as part of an intermediary activity)
   2014/C 85/07
   Language of the case: German
   
      Referring court
   
   Bundesfinanzhof
   
      Parties to the main proceedings
   
   
      Applicant: Finanzamt Düsseldorf-Mitte
   
      Defendant: Ibero Tours GmbH
   
      Re:
   
   Request for a preliminary ruling — Bundesfinanzhof — Interpretation of Article 11(C)(1) and Article 26 of Directive 77/388/EEC: Sixth Council Directive 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 L 145, p. 1) — Operations of travel agents — Granting of price discounts to customers resulting in a reduction of the travel agent’s commission — Determination of the taxable amount for the intermediary service.
   
      Operative part of the judgment
   
   The provisions 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, must be interpreted as meaning that the principles established by the Court of Justice of the European Union in Case C-317/94 Elida Gibbs [1996] ECR I-5339 concerning the determination of the taxable amount for VAT purposes do not apply when a travel agent, acting as an intermediary, grants to the final consumer, on the travel agent’s own initiative and at his own expense, a price reduction on the principal service provided by the tour operator.
   
      (1)  OJ C 287, 22.9.2012