Tax Appeals Board Upholds SKAT’s Rejection of VAT Deduction Due to Fraudulent Transactions

• The case involved whether SKAT was correct in rejecting a company’s claim for a VAT deduction on expenses related to the purchase of a property and the setup of a commercial lease.
• The rejection was based on the claim being part of VAT fraud.
• The individual, A, owned the company and its sister company through a holding company and was also the director of the sister company.
• On June 6, 2017, the director was aware that the sister company had not declared or paid the output VAT and was under bankruptcy proceedings.
• The Tax Appeals Board (Landsskatteretten) found that the company was aware of the fraudulent behavior of the sister company in the previous transaction stage.
• Consequently, the company was not in good faith regarding the transactions forming the basis for the VAT deduction.
• Therefore, the company was not entitled to the deduction under VAT Act § 37.
• The Tax Appeals Board upheld SKAT’s decision.

Source: info.skat.dk

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