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VAT Directive — Article 135

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Article 135 1. Member States shall exempt the following transactions: (a) insurance and reinsurance transactions, including related services performed by insurance brokers and insurance agents; (b) the granting and the negotiation of credit and the management of credit by the person granting it; (c) the negotiation of or any dealings in credit guarantees or any other security for money and the management of credit guarantees by the person who is granting the credit; (d) transactions, including negotiation, concerning deposit and current accounts, payments, transfers, debts, cheques and other negotiable instruments, but excluding debt collection; (e) transactions, including negotiation, concerning currency, bank notes and coins used as legal tender, with the exception of collectors' items, that is to say, gold, silver or other metal coins or bank notes which are not normally used as legal tender or coins of numismatic interest; (f) transactions, including negotiation but not management or safekeeping, in shares, interests in companies or associations, debentures and other securities, but excluding documents establishing title to goods, and the rights or securities referred to
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in Article 15(2); (g) the management of special investment funds as defined by Member States; (h) the supply at face value of postage stamps valid for use for postal services within their respective territory, fiscal stamps and other similar stamps; (i) betting, lotteries and other forms of gambling, subject to the conditions and limitations laid down by each Member State; (j) the supply of a building or parts thereof, and of the land on which it stands, other than the supply referred to in point (a) of Article 12(1); (k) the supply of land which has not been built on other than the supply of building land as referred to in point (b) of Article 12(1); (l) the leasing or letting of immovable property. of building land as referred to in point (b) of Article 12(1); (l) the leasing or letting of immovable property. 2. The following shall be excluded from the exemption provided for in point (l) of paragraph 1: (a) the provision of accommodation, as defined in the laws of the Member States, in the hotel sector or in sectors with a similar function, including the provision of accommodation in holiday camps or on sites developed for use as camping sites; (b) the letting of premises and sites for the parking of vehicles; (c) the letting of permanently installed equipment and machinery; (d) the hire of safes. Member States may apply further exclusions to the scope of the exemption referred to in point (l) of paragraph 1.

Who wrote about this article in the consultations

Filers who named this exact article number in their own text. It is their sentence, not our reading — and not a causal claim.

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International VAT AssociationBEmaximum of 45 days in accordance with the definition given in the proposed text of Article 135(3) of the VAT Directive. There does not seem to be any certain and concrete reason for setting the time limit at 45 days. It would be more reasonable and even easier
Awaze LimitedGBhe European Commission re-evaluates the existing criterion and the lack of VAT exemption for short-term rentals, as stipulated in Article 135(2) of Directive 2006/112/EC.  Reassess the scope of the deemed supplier provision in light of the principle VAT neutr
German Banking Industry CommitteeDEin the past and welcome the fact that the exemption from the obligation to issue invoices for transactions exempt from VAT under Article 135 (1) (a) to (g) will continue to apply (Article 220 (2) VAT Directive). However, in the discussion of the proposal with
Confederation of Industry of the Czech RepublicCZbe required in respect of supplies of services exempted under points (a) to (g) of Article 135(1). Proposed text: 1. Every taxable person shall ensure that, in respect of the following, an invoice is issued, either by himself or by his customer or, in his name
PwC ILBEhe latter approach would make it difficult to separate ‘platform’ transactions from ‘own’ transactions performed by the platform. Article 135 (3) - No exemption for accommodation • No further comments. Articles 136a and b - Supply from supplier to platform is
ITALIAN BANKING ASSOCIATION (ABI)ITincluded among the technical-commercial services, taxable VAT, or among the financial intermediation services, exempt pursuant to art. 135, par. 1 of the Directive n. 2006/112/EC.

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 6 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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