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Does the ECJ still keep the Taxman away?

Hartley Foster and Aaron Stephens, DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP, ask whether the ECJ is still the taxpayers' friend

 
Hartley Foster and Aaron Stephens DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Cary UK LLP ask whether the ECJ is still the taxpayers' friend
 
Until recently it was considered relatively easy in direct tax cases where EC law was in issue to predict both the outcome and the way in which it would be expressed by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and its Advocates-General. Normally the ECJ would adopt the following four-step approach in considering whether a domestic tax provision was contrary to the EC Treaty.
 
(1)     Does a fundamental freedom apply?
 
(2)     Does the domestic provision constitute a restriction of that fundamental freedom?
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