ECJ answered wrong question, says German court

January 01 2010

The Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof – BFH) has decided that Germany's switchover clause for taxing income from foreign partnerships is incompatible with EU law, even though the European Court of Justice (ECJ) reached the opposite conclusion in the same case, Columbus Container Services v Finanzamt Bielefeld-Innenstadt (C-298/05).

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