No action on German VAT
- From: Vol 6, Issue 12 (December 2005)
- Category: General
- Region: Europe
- Country: Germany
Germany\'s new government has decided not to act against the discrepancy which penalises private wastewater provision.
Despite urgent calls from Germany’s water lobby organisations for harmonisation of VAT rates in the water and wastewater sectors, the new conservative-social democrat “grand coalition” government has decided “the tax privilege for wastewater should be maintained”. Thus, while municipal wastewater enterprises are subject to a 0% VAT rate, limited companies and stockholding companies (whether municipally or privately owned) continue ...
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