Germany’s 2024 Annual Tax Act, effective January 1, 2025, narrows the VAT exemption for educational services, excluding pre-produced content like video courses and learning platforms. However, courses and streaming services approved under the Distance Learning Protection Act, where teacher and student are predominantly physically separated and learning success is monitored, remain exempt. The Federal Ministry of Finance’s draft letter clarifies this, defining “learning success monitoring” as the learner’s ability to receive individual instruction through questions and answers, not necessarily requiring formal tests.
Source: kmlz.de
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