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Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Förvaltningsrätten i Stockholm (Sweden) lodged on 7 January 2013 - Skandia America Corporation USA, filial Sverige v Skatteverket

(Case C-7/13)

Language of the case: Swedish

Referring court

Förvaltningsrätten i Stockholm

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Skandia America Corporation USA, filial Sverige

Defendant: Skatteverket

Questions referred

Do supplies of externally purchased services from a company's main establishment in a third country to its branch in a Member State, with an allocation of costs for the purchase to the branch, constitute taxable transactions if the branch belongs to a VAT group in the Member State?

If the answer to the first question is in the affirmative, is the main establishment in the third country to be viewed as a taxable person not established in the Member State within the meaning of Article 196 of the Directive,  with the result that the purchaser is to be taxed for the transactions?

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1 - Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1).