Peter Mason takes issue with the EC view that the 'legal personality' principle, that supplies cannot be made within the same legal entity, is trumped by the creation of a separate VAT personality in the form of a VAT group
A group
What is a group?
The dictionary identifies it as a ‘cluster crowd or throng; an assemblage either of persons or things collected without any regular form or arrangement’.
VAT groups however are a bit different.
Article 11 of the Principal VAT Directive 2006/112/EC 28 November 2006 (the ‘PVD’) states that:
‘Article 11
After consulting the advisory committee on value added tax (hereafter the ‘VAT Committee’) each Member State may regard as a single taxable person any persons established in the territory of that Member State who while legally independent are closely...
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Peter Mason takes issue with the EC view that the 'legal personality' principle, that supplies cannot be made within the same legal entity, is trumped by the creation of a separate VAT personality in the form of a VAT group
A group
What is a group?
The dictionary identifies it as a ‘cluster crowd or throng; an assemblage either of persons or things collected without any regular form or arrangement’.
VAT groups however are a bit different.
Article 11 of the Principal VAT Directive 2006/112/EC 28 November 2006 (the ‘PVD’) states that:
‘Article 11
After consulting the advisory committee on value added tax (hereafter the ‘VAT Committee’) each Member State may regard as a single taxable person any persons established in the territory of that Member State who while legally independent are closely...
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