The Supreme Tax Court has rejected a tax office attempt to requalify a retirement pension paid to a former partner now living abroad to deferred business income.
Tax & Legal
An ECJ advocate general has asked the court to rule that a German deduction for personal expenses be extended to non-residents if they would not have had the income without the obligation.
The finance ministry has ruled on a court case holding the increased capital gains scope to be unconstitutional inasfar as the gain could have been realised tax free on promulgation of the new law.
The finance ministry has published its draft taxonomy for the electronic filing of accounts in support of the tax returns. The final version is expected to be ready for 2011 filings.
The Supreme Tax Court has turned to the ECJ with a preliminary question on the Sixth Directive requirement for the VAT ID of the immediate non-community customer of goods delivered to an EU end user.
The Supreme Tax Court has held that the VAT on an advance payment can only be reduced when the payment is returned.
The Supreme Tax Court has confirmed that the maximum foreign income limit for the option to treat a non-resident spouse as taxable does not apply within the EU.
The Supreme Tax Court has reaffirmed its position that the taxable benefit from using a company car to go to work depends on the actual use of the car. By contrast it now has doubts on the provision of a chauffeur as a benefit.
The finance ministry has issued a decree on the implementation procedures for a retrospective change in the law increasing the scope for deducting home office costs.
The finance ministry has accepted as a precedent a Supreme Tax Court ruling that a payment to a motor car dealer for an extended warranty is subject to VAT.