CELEX: 62008CN0437
Language: en
Date: 2008-10-03 00:00:00
Title: Case C-437/08: Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Finanzsenat, Außenstelle Linz (Austria) lodged on 3 October 2008 — Österreichische Salinen AG v Finanzamt Linz

24.1.2009   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               C 19/11
            
         Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Unabhängiger Finanzsenat, Außenstelle Linz (Austria) lodged on 3 October 2008 — Österreichische Salinen AG v Finanzamt Linz
   (Case C-437/08)
   (2009/C 19/19)
   Language of the case: German
   Referring court
   Unabhängiger Finanzsenat, Außenstelle Linz
   Parties to the main proceedings
   
      Applicant: Österreichische Salinen AG
   
      Defendant: Finanzamt Linz
   Questions referred
   
               1.
            
            
               Does Community law preclude a national authority — in order to avoid discriminating against foreign equity holdings which, unlike domestic (Austrian) equity holdings, are not tax exempt under legislation until the size of the equity holding reaches 25 % (under present legislation 10 %) — from applying the credit method because the Austrian Verwaltungsgerichtshof (Administrative Court) has ruled that this outcome is closest to the (hypothetical) intention of the legislature but not simultaneously permitting a deduction to be carried forward to subsequent years or a tax credit to be given for a loss year with regard, firstly, to the corporation tax to be credited and, secondly, to the withholding tax to be credited?
            
         
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               If the answer to the first question should be in the affirmative: Does Community law preclude a refusal to allow a deduction to be carried forward or a tax credit to be given in the case of non-member country dividends?