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Weald Leasing Ltd v Revenue and Customs: VDT 6 Feb 2007

VDT VAT – AVOIDANCE – Abuse of rights – Appellant associate of exempt trader purchasing assets to lease to separate company to lease on to exempt trader – Associate outside VAT group – Associate credited with input tax on purchases – Insertion of separate company avoided direction under VATA 1994 Sch 6 para 1 – Purpose of transaction to avoid or defer VAT of exempt trader – Halifax ECJ [2006] STC 919 considered – Purpose of legislation – Whether transactions contrary to purpose – Redefinition of transactions if abuse – Appeal allowed

Citations:

[2007] UKVAT V20003

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Citing:

CitedHalifax plc etc v Commissioners of Customs and Excise ECJ 21-Feb-2006
ECJ Sixth VAT Directive – Article 2(1), Article 4(1) and (2), Article 5(1) and Article 6(1) – Economic activity – Supplies of goods – Supplies of services – Abusive practice – Transactions designed solely to . .

Cited by:

Appeal fromHM Revenue and Customs v Weald Leasing Ltd ChD 16-Jan-2008
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At VDTWeald Leasing (Taxation) ECJ 26-Oct-2010
ECJ Opinion – Value added tax (VAT) – Sixth Council Directive 77/388/EEC – Concept of ‘abusive practice’ and ‘normal commercial operations’ – Transaction designed solely to obtain a tax advantage – Leasing and . .
At VDTHM Revenue and Customs v Weald Leasing (Taxation) ECJ 2-Dec-2010
ECJ Sixth VAT Directive – Concept of ‘abusive practice’ – Leasing transactions effected by a group of undertakings to spread the payment of non-deductible VAT . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

VAT, European

Updated: 10 July 2022; Ref: scu.249789

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