ECJ: Advocate General finds German rules on taxation of cross-border dividends under old imputation system compatible with EC law
On 31 January 2008, Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave his opinion in the case of Burda Verlagsbeteiligungen GmbH v. Finanzamt Hamburg-Am Tierpark (C-284/06). The German Federal Finance Court (Bundesfinanzhof) had requested a preliminary ruling from the ECJ on 29 June 2006.
In this case, the Advocate General concluded tha…
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