ECJ TAX CASE
May 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLCOMPANY and private car drivers moving from one European Union (EU) Member State to another should not be required to pay fresh registration taxes when they change their country of residence, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended. Miguel Poiares Maduro said insisting on such a tax "constitutes a good illustration of the kind of obstacle to the free movement of persons within the EU which (the taxation) directive 83/183 was intended to eliminate". The case focused on an Austrian citizen JHM Feron (NOTE - NO FIRST NAME ...
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