Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Sunico ApS and others – WLR Daily

Posted September 19th, 2013 in conflict of laws, damages, EC law, fraud, HM Revenue & Customs, law reports, news, VAT by sally

Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Sunico ApS and others (Case C-49/12); [2013] WLR (D) 347

“The concept of ‘civil and commercial matters’ within the meaning of article 1(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 44/2001 covered an action whereby a public authority of one member state claimed, as against natural and legal persons resident in another member state, damages for loss caused by a tortious conspiracy to commit value added tax fraud in the first member state.”

WLR Daily, 12th September 2013

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