This article deals with the decision taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in September 2014 regarding the compatibility of inheritance taxation with the fundamental freedoms (Commission v. Spain (Case C-127/12) and Commission v. Germany (Case C-211/13)).The authors welcome the...

This article deals with the decision taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in X (Case C-283/15), on 9 February 2017. In general terms, the Court followed the Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet of 7 September 2016.The case concerned tax legislation permitting the deduction of...

This article examines the decision of the CJEU in Brisal and KBC Finance Ireland (Case C-18/15) of 13 July 2016. Following a Portuguese reference for a preliminary ruling, the Court's decision provides further clarification on the permissibility of withholding taxation within the European Union....

This is an Opinion Statement prepared by the CFE ECJ Task Force on the Commission v Spain case (also cited as the 'Form 720' case), in which the First Chamber of the Court of Justice of the EU (ECJ) delivered its decision on 27 January 2022. The Court, in its decision, ruled in favour of the...

This article is a commentary on the decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union on the Vodafone case, C-74/78 on progressive turnover taxes.In our view, the Court’s decision provides clarifications for ascertaining the compatibility of domestic turnover taxes with the fundamental...

This article deals with the decision taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in European Commission v. United Kingdom ("Final Losses") (Case C-172/13), published on on the 3 February 2015. This case is in some ways a follow-up to the ECJ's decision in Marks & Spencer (Case C-446/03)...

This article deals with the decision taken by the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union in World Duty Free Group (formerly Autogrill España); Banco Santander and Santusa Holding (Joined Cases C-20/15 P and C-21/15 P), on 21 December 2016, following decisions of the General...

This article examines the decision of the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) in Berlioz Investment Fund SA (Case C-682/15) delivered on 16 May 2017, following the Opinion of Advocate General Wathelet of 10 January 2017.The case concerned the levying of tax...

This article deals with compatibility of limitation-on-benefits (LoB) clauses with the EU fundamental freedoms, based on decisions of the European Court of Justice (ECJ). The context of this statement is the Commission's infringement procedure against the Netherlands with regard to the LoB...

This article deals with the decision taken by the Court of Justice of the European Union in of 26 February 2019 in N Luxembourg I et al. (Joined Cases C-115/16, C-118/16, C-119/16 and C-299/16) and T Danmark et al. (Joined Cases C-116/16 and C-117/17).The authors acknowledge that the "Danish...