CELEX:62020CA0257: Case C-257/20: Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 24 February 2022 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Varhoven administrativen sad — Bulgaria) — ‘Viva Telecom Bulgaria’ EOOD v Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i danachno-osiguritelna praktika’ — Sofia (Reference for a preliminary ruling — Taxation — Withholding tax on notional interest on an interest-free loan granted to a resident subsidiary by a non-resident parent company — Directive 2003/49/EC — Payments of interest between associated companies of different Member States — Article 1(1) — Exemption from withholding tax — Article 4(1)(d) — Exclusion of certain payments — Directive 2011/96/EU — Corporation tax — Article 1(1)(b) — Distribution of profits by a resident subsidiary to its non-resident parent company — Article 5 — Exemption from withholding tax — Directive 2008/7/EC — Raising of capital — Article 3 — Contributions of capital — Article 5(1)(a) — Indirect tax exemption — Articles 63 and 65 TFEU — Free movement of capital — Taxation of the gross amount of notional interest — Recovery procedure for the purposes of the deduction of expenses related to the grant of the loan and a possible refund — Difference in treatment — Justification — Balanced allocation of the power to impose taxes between the Member States — Effective collection of tax — Combating of tax avoidance)
April 19, 2022
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