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VAT Directive — Article 59

The article's text

Article 59 The place of supply of the following services to a non-taxable person who is established or has his permanent address or usually resides outside the Community, shall be the place where that person is established, has his permanent address or usually resides: (a) transfers and assignments of copyrights, patents, licences, trade marks and similar rights; (b) advertising services; (c) the services of consultants, engineers, consultancy firms, lawyers, accountants and other similar services, as well as data processing and the provision of information; (d) obligations to refrain from pursuing or exercising, in whole or in part, a business activity or a right referred to in this Article; (e) banking, financial and insurance transactions including reinsurance, with the exception of the hire of safes; (f) the supply of staff; (g) the hiring out of movable tangible property, with the exception of all means of transport; (h) the provision of access to a natural gas system situated within the territory of the Community or to any network connected to such a system, to the electricity system or to heating or cooling networks, or the transmission or distribution through these
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systems or networks, and the provision of other services directly linked thereto. ————— Subsection 10 Prevention of double taxation or non-taxation

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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public authority
WhoCountryWhat they wrote
Autorités françaisesFRi ont eu lieu sur ce sujet au sein du comité TVA et au sein du Conseil que les modalités de calcul du seuil de 10 000 € prévu à l’article 59 quater de la directive TVA, dans le cas où un assujetti établi dans un seul État membre réalise par ailleurs des ventes

Source: public consultation submissions and position papers. n = 1 mentions; counted as a literal reference to the article number.

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