Proposal to amend Council Implementing Decision 2012/232/EU authorising Romania to apply measures derogating from Article 26(1)(a) and Article 168 of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax

Pursuant to Article 395(1) of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax ('the VAT Directive'), the Council may authorise any Member State to apply special measures for derogating from the provisions of that Directive in order to simplify the procedure for collecting VAT or to prevent certain forms of tax evasion or avoidance.

By letter registered with the Commission on 5 April 2017, Romania requested an extension of the derogation from Article 168 of the VAT Directive in order to continue to restrict the right to deduct the input VAT on expenditure connected with motor vehicles.

In accordance with Article 395(2) of the VAT Directive, the Commission informed the other Member States by letter dated 28 June 2017 of the request made by Romania. By letter dated 29 June 2017, the Commission notified Romania that it had all the information it considered necessary for appraisal of the request.

EUR-Lex: COM(2017)543: Follow the progress of this proposal through the decision-making procedure http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/HIS/?uri=COM:2017:543:FIN

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