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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9406
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

VAT exemption also applies to partial chartering of vessels

Luxembourg, 13/04/2007 (Agence Europe) - In his conclusions on case C-97/06, delivered on 29 March, the advocate general says that the Spanish legislation which imposes value added tax to the partial chartering of sea-going vessels is incompatible with Community law. Article 15 of the Council's sixth directive 77/388/EEC exempts the charter of certain categories of ship from VAT, but without making any distinction on the various types of charter. Advocate General M. J.Mazák says that this...

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