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Wheels Common Investment Fund Trustees Ltd v HMRC (and related appeals)

Management of special investment funds

In Wheels Common Investment Fund Trustees Ltd v HMRC (and related appeals) (TC01381 – 22 August) a company (C) provided fund management services to several companies which administered defined-benefit occupational pension schemes.

C accounted for VAT on its supplies on the basis that the recipients did not qualify for exemption under VATA 1994 Sch 9 Group 5.

Following the ECJ decision in JP Morgan Fleming Claverhouse Investment Trust plc v HMRC [2007] 1 ECR 5517 C submitted a repayment claim contending that its supplies qualified for exemption under EC law. HMRC rejected the claim.

The recipient companies appealed to the First-tier Tribunal contending that they qualified as ‘special investment funds’ within Article 135(1)(g) of EC Directive 2006/112/EC.

The tribunal referred the case to the ECJ...

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