GERMANY ITALY TOBACCO ADVERTISING VAT CASE
June 1st, 2006
STORIES BY KEITH NUTHALL
GERMAN tobacco company Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken could win a long-running attempt to recover VAT paid after being invoiced in error by an Italian advertising agency. Reemtsma had in 1994 handed over Italian Lira 175,022,025 (Euro 90,391), but subsequently discovered the services should have been invoiced without any demand for VAT. The Germans then launched a long, and until now fruitless, legal battle to recover part of this money, in cases that were finally referred to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for advice on European Union ...
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