According to several sources, France has asked for the legal services of the Council of the EU to be consulted over the question of the compatibility with the treaties of the proposal of the European Commission to define a raft of criteria to allow certain countries to derogate from the VAT directive in order to apply a reverse-charge mechanism, providing for VAT to be paid by the final consumer (EUROPE 11694).
A number of sources also expressed concerns that the Czech Republic - which has...