The Court of Justice of the European Union annulled, on Thursday 4 June, a judgment of the EU General Court of April 2018 (Cases T-554 & 555/15) and a European Commission decision of July 2015 considering two Hungarian taxes incompatible with the internal market (Case C-456/18 P).
These two taxes were introduced in 2014. The first aimed to establish a 'health' contribution by tobacco companies by introducing a progressive levy rate on the annual turnover of companies deriving at least 50% of...