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Free heat withdrawal discounted from VAT: implications of EU Court of Justice ruling.

  • Transfer of heat from a company to other entities for free is considered a taxable transaction
  • The cost base for this transaction includes both direct and indirectly attributable costs
  • Ruling by the EU Court of Justice in a case involving a German company producing biogas
  • German tax authorities challenged the taxability of the free heat transfer

Source: eutekne.info

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