The Hungarian advertising tax and the Polish turnover tax in the retail sector are in conformity with EU law, Advocate-General Juliane Kokott said in her Opinion delivered on Thursday 15 October in Cases C-562/19 and C-596/19. She proposes that the EU Court of Justice confirm the judgments of the General Court in these cases and dismiss the appeals of the European Commission.
In 2016 and 2017, the Commission had in fact declared these two taxes, based on company turnover and with a...