Advocate General opinion in FII GLO encourages claimants

September 30 2013

The Franked Investment Income Group Litigation (FII GLO) concerning claimants' rights to recover overcharged tax from HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has been batted back and forth between the UK courts and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) since 2006. Philippe Freund, of Joseph Hage Aaronson, explains why an Advocate General's opinion on the third reference to the ECJ has given taxpayers cause to be optimistic.

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