23/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - The European Court of Justice has ruled that businesses active in the hospitality sector are not liable for VAT on deposits taken in case of the cancellation of a reservation by the client. A spa resort in Eugénie-Les-Bains (France) challenged taxation of 12,814 euros demanded by the French tax office on the total of these deposits; on 18 July, however, the European Court, to which the case had been referred by the French Council of State, ruled that once the...