NARE-BG (VAT - Right to deduct - Time limits for the declaration and payment of certain taxes - Judgment) French Text [2024] EUECJ C-429/23 (12 September 2024)

NARE-BG (VAT - Right to deduct - Time limits for the declaration and payment of certain taxes - Judgment) French Text [2024] EUECJ C-429/23 (12 September 2024)

EU law does not preclude national rules that refuse the right to deduct VAT paid before registration if the deduction is claimed after the expiry of a statutory limitation period, even if COVID-19 measures extended deadlines for other taxes but not VAT, provided the limitation period is not discriminatory and does...

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Citation
[2024] EUECJ C-429/23
Parties
Applicant: NARE-BG EOOD; Respondent: Direktor na Direktsia 'Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika' Varna pri Tsentralno upravlenie na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite
Jurisdiction
European Union
Procedural Posture
Preliminary Reference / Final Judgment
Outcome
Reference answered; national law upheld.
Legal Topics
Value Added Tax (vat), Right to Deduct, Time Limits, COVID 19 Pandemic Measures, Principles of Equivalence, Effectiveness, And Neutrality
Tax Law European Union Law Value Added Tax (vat) Right to Deduct Time Limits COVID 19 Pandemic Measures Principles of Equivalence, Effectiveness, and Neutrality

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Parties

NARE-BG EOOD

Applicant

Direktor na Direktsia 'Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika' Varna pri Tsentralno upravlenie na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite

Respondent

Procedural Posture

Preliminary Reference / Final Judgment

  1. 1 Whether national law refusing VAT deduction after expiry of a statutory time limit, despite COVID-19 extensions for other taxes, is compatible with Directive 2006/112/EC and EU law principles.
  2. 2 Whether the mechanism for rectification of VAT declarations can be used to claim deduction after the time limit.

Ratio Decidendi

EU law does not preclude national rules that refuse the right to deduct VAT paid before registration if the deduction is claimed after the expiry of a statutory limitation period, even if COVID-19 measures extended deadlines for other taxes but not VAT, provided the limitation period is not discriminatory and does not make the exercise of the right impossible or excessively difficult.

Court Disposition

Reference answered; national law upheld.

Orders

  • Article 184 of Directive 2006/112/EC, read with Article 186 and the principles of equivalence, effectiveness, and neutrality, does not preclude national rules refusing VAT deduction after expiry of the limitation period, even if COVID-19 measures extended deadlines for other taxes but not VAT.