Judgment of the Court (Fifth Chamber) of 21 June 2018

Fidelity Funds and Others v Skatteministeriet

Request for a preliminary ruling from the Østre Landsret

Reference for a preliminary ruling — Free movement of capital and liberalisation of payments — Restrictions — Taxation of dividends paid to undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities (UCITS) — Dividends paid by companies resident in one Member State to non-resident UCITS — Tax exemption for dividends paid by companies resident in one Member State to resident UCITS — Justifications — Balanced allocation between Member States of the power to impose taxes — Coherence of the tax system — Proportionality

Case C-480/16


Top of the page Documents in the Case
Document Date Name of the parties Subject-matter Curia EUR-Lex Autres Liens
Judgment (OJ)
27/07/2018 Fidelity Funds and Others
Judgment
ECLI:EU:C:2018:480
21/06/2018 Fidelity Funds and Others
Judgment (Summary)
ECLI:EU:C:2018:480
21/06/2018 Fidelity Funds and Others
Application (OJ)
28/10/2016 Fidelity Funds and Others
Opinion
ECLI:EU:C:2017:1015
20/12/2017 Fidelity Funds and Others
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Reports of Cases

not yet published (Court Reports - general)

Subject-matter

Information not available

Systematic classification scheme

1.
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.04 Free movement of persons and services
    4.04.03 Freedom to provide services
      4.04.03.00 General
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.05 Free movement of capital and freedom of payments
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.05 Free movement of capital and freedom of payments
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.05 Free movement of capital and freedom of payments
4 Internal policy of the European Union
  4.05 Free movement of capital and freedom of payments


Citations of case-law or legislation

References in grounds of judgment

Operative part

Opinion


Dates

Date of the lodging of the application initiating proceedings

  • 05/09/2016

Date of the Opinion

  • 20/12/2017

Date of the hearing

Information not available

Date of delivery

21/06/2018


References

Publication in the Official Journal

Judgment: OJ C 285 from 13.08.2018, p.5

Application: OJ C 419 from 14.11.2016, p.32

Name of the parties

Fidelity Funds and Others

Notes on Academic Writings

  1. Schwenk, Charlotte ; Faber, Stephan: Auf inländische OGAW beschränkte Quellensteuerbefreiung auch bei sichergestellter Besteuerung auf Anlegerebene unionsrechtswidrig, Internationale Steuer-Rundschau : ISR 2018 N.9 p.319-321 (DE)
  2. Meussen, G.T.K.: Beslissingen in belastingzaken 2018 nº 19 p.4073-4076 (NL)
  3. Meussen, Gerard: The Fidelity case : changing perspectives of the European Court of Justice on UCITS, Rivista di diritto tributario internazionale 2018 nº 3 p.166-174 (EN)



Procedural Analysis Information

Source of the question referred for a preliminary ruling

Østre Landsret - Denmark

Subject-matter

  • Taxation
  • Freedom of establishment
  • Free movement of capital

Provisions of national law referred to

Information not available

Provisions of international law referred to

Information not available

Procedure and result

  • Reference for a preliminary ruling

Formation of the Court

cinquième chambre (Cour)

Judge-Rapporteur

Levits

Advocate General

Mengozzi

Language(s) of the Case

  • Danish

Language(s) of the Opinion

  • French