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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8332

1 November 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Germany fails to overturn court decision on VAT reduction vouchers and must change its regulation

Luxembourg, 31/10/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has ruled against Germany's VAT regulation on reduction vouchers, which breaches Community law.

In contrast to France and the United Kingdom, which complied with a court decision in the Elida Gibbs case in 1996, Germany has maintained its tax system. When the Commission took on Germany in this matter, the latter arranged for a plenary of eleven judges to overturn the Community's ruling on Elida Gibbs. But the Court ruled...

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