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Stephen Dale and Alexandre Savary represented IVA at the meeting with Economisti Associati which took place on 15^th December in Brussels.

Stephen Dale and Mark O’Riordan represented the IVA at the meeting with the Commission regarding VAT refund in Germany to taxpayers established in other Member States. The meeting took place on 12^th September in Belgium. The formal complaint lodged by the IVA was discussed in detail. Christian Salder of KMLZ is very kindly supporting the IVA on this issue.

Stephen Dale and Cyrille Konter represented IVA at the meeting with HMRC which took place on 7^th December in Newcastle.

The agenda was very full – see below and a very complete note of the meeting has been made which we have submitted to HMRC for review and sign-off. Please contact Cyrille or Stephen if you have any questions and we will circulate the notes as soon as they are available.

As expected the Court’s judgement followed the earlier opinion of the Advocate General with the effect that the domestic legislation currently in place in Germany, is now prohibited...

Several IVA members are following the German restyling case referred to the EUCJ. The EUCJ ruling (“C-518/14 Senatex GmbH v Finanzamt Hannover-Nord”) due out this month may follow the Advocate General's (AG) opinion from earlier this year...

Several IVA members are following the German restyling case referred to the EUCJ. The EUCJ ruling (“C-518/14 Senatex GmbH v Finanzamt Hannover-Nord”) due out this month may follow the Advocate General's (AG) opinion from earlier this year ...

Mike Molony was representing the IVA as a business delegate, and was acting as a Chair or Rapporteur in one of the Group discussions. Emmanuel Cotessat was also there to represent the IVA. Many thanks to both of them for their time representing your Association...

Your Association has been very active on your behalf in relation to certain difficulties being encountered with VAT refunds under Directive 2008/9/EC in France (MSR) and regularisations under Directive 2006/112/EC...

Hilde Blontrock, one of the members of the Board, and Marja van den Oetelaar have been very active on behalf of the Association to ensure that refunds of Dutch VAT under the Directive 2008/9/EC ('8th Directive') continue to be effected in the most efficient manner for ...

In various ways the legal department of the New York based German American Chambers of Commerce supports enterprises in handling transactions between Germany and the US. For example, we support foreign entrepreneurs, who receive ...