The ECJ issued the question in the case C-188/21 (Megatherm-Csillaghegy). The question is whether a taxable person has the Right to deduct VAT when the tax authorities revoke its Tax Number.
Article in the EU VAT Directive
Articles 63, 167, 168, 178 to 180, 182 and 273 of the VAT Directive
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Questions
Must the principle of the neutrality of value added tax, as well as recital 30 and Articles 63, 167, 168, 178 to 180, 182 and 273 of the VAT Directive, be interpreted as meaning that they preclude the last sentence of Article 137(3) of az általános forgalmi adóról szóló 2007. évi CXXVII. törvény (Law CXXVII of 2007 on Value Added Tax), in the version in force between 1 January 2015 and 31 December 2017, whereby, ‘even in the case where the tax authority revokes the taxable person’s tax identification number without having suspended it, the taxable person shall lose his or her right to deduct tax on the date on which the decision revoking that number becomes final’, and Article 137 thereof, in the version in force between 1 January 2018 and 26 November 2020, whereby, ‘if the national tax and customs authority revokes the taxable person’s tax identification number, the taxable person shall lose the right to deduct tax on the date on which the decision revoking that number becomes final’?
Must Article 273 of the VAT Directive be interpreted as meaning that loss of the right to deduct tax as a mandatory legal consequence goes (disproportionately) beyond what is necessary in order to attain the objective of collecting tax and combating tax evasion?
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