Austrian Administrative Supreme Court (VwGH) about the certificate of residence for capital gains tax relief

Following up on recent case law from the tax court (BFG), in a different legal matter, the Austrian Administrative Supreme Court (VwGH) now also addressed the requirement to provide a certificate of residence on specific Austrian forms (ZS-QU1 or ZS-QU2) to benefit from a withholding tax relief at source in its decision dated 9 October […]

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High court desicion: No final loss utilization for shares in case of a liquidation of non-EU/EEA tax group member

According to the Austrian Administrative Supreme Cout (“VwGH”) the Austrian tax group regime is full set of rules, which prevails as lex specialis over the general rule for the loss utilization. Therefore the concurrent application of the general final loss utilization rules for shares were rejected by the recent case law in case of non-EU/EEA […]

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