Brussels, 19/03/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 19 March, the European Commission adopted several decisions on infringement procedures on direct taxation.
Germany was referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for two cases. One focused on the discriminatory tax depreciation rules applied to buildings situated abroad and the other on its discriminatory taxation of outbound dividends.
In the first case, German law allows for a higher percentage of depreciation to be applied in the...