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VAT Directive — Article 196

The article's text

Article 196 VAT shall be payable by any taxable person, or non-taxable legal person identified for VAT purposes, to whom the services referred to in Article 44 are supplied, if the services are supplied by a taxable person not established within the territory of the Member State.

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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EU citizen
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public authority
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company
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business association
WhoCountryWhat they wrote
PostEuropBEthe tax amount also in case the supply is exempt from VAT (intracommunity supply) or if the customer is liable for the VAT as per article 196 of Directive 2006/112/EU (reverse charge mechanism).
Christian AMANDBEed from VAT in the Member State where the transaction is taxable and for which the recipient is liable to pay the tax pursuant to Article 196.” According to the proposal, article 262(1)(c) is replaced with effect from 1 January 2025 ‘(c) the taxable persons, a
FedEx ExpressNLapply if the VAT is reverse charged based on article 196, not even if the vendor is based/identified for VAT in the EU? In our view, this is not how the provision was meant and it would be cleaner to have article 267 refer to (mirror) the transactions for whic
Autorités françaisesFRnversion du redevable en élargissant son champ aux prestations de services entre assujettis (B2B) qui ne sont pas couvertes par l’article 196 de la directive TVA et aux livraisons de biens réalisées par un assujetti non établi Les autorités françaises qui ont

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 4 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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