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The Austrian goodwill case: treaty freedoms and state aid

Peter Halford (PwC Legal) considers AG Kokott’s opinion in the ‘Austrian goodwill’ case, including its implications for the Commission’s appeals to the CJEU in the ‘Spanish goodwill’ cases.

On 16 April 2015 Advocate General Kokott issued her opinion in the so-called ‘Austrian goodwill’ case of Finanzamt Linz v Bundesfinanzgericht Aussenstelle Linz (C-66/14) (reported in Tax Journal 24 April 2015). The AG’s opinion is noteworthy for two reasons. First it addresses the knotty question of the interaction between the fundamental treaty freedoms and the state aid rules in circumstances where a cross-border transaction attracts less favourable tax treatment than the corresponding domestic transaction. Second it may provide insight into how the CJEU could decide the Spanish goodwill cases...

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