Proposal for a Council Implementing Decision authorising Estonia to apply a special measure derogating from Article 287 of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax

Pursuant to Article 395(1) of Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (the 'VAT Directive'), the Council, acting unanimously on a proposal from the Commission, may authorise any Member State to apply special measures derogating from the Directive in order to simplify the procedure for charging the tax or to prevent certain types of tax evasion or avoidance.

By letter registered with the Commission on 18 May 2016, Estonia requested an authorisation to apply, as of 1 January 2018, a measure derogating from Article 287 of the VAT Directive, allowing Estonia to exempt from VAT taxable persons whose annual turnover is no higher than €40,000.

In accordance with Article 395(2) of the VAT Directive, the Commission informed the other Member States by letter dated 4 October 2016 of the request made by Estonia. The Commission notified Estonia by letter dated 5 October 2016 that it had all the information necessary to consider the request.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)61: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:061:FIN

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