| Innhold: | This article analyzes two recent judgments from the Norwegian Supreme Court, both involving VAT groups and their right to deduct input VAT incurred in connection with transaction costs related to, respectively, the sale and purchase of shares out of and into a VAT group. The purpose of this article is to contribute to the discussions in Norway from an EU and a Danish perspective, and, at the same time, to consider how Norwegian Supreme Court case law provides a third-country perspective on similar discussions in the EU. It is concluded that recent Norwegian Supreme Court case law in many ways corresponds to the result which could have been anticipated, based on a hypothetical application of EU VAT law to the two Norwegian cases. However, it is also pointed out that in several other ways, Norwegian VAT law differs significantly from both EU VAT law and Danish VAT law.
Keywords: VAT grouping, VAT group, deduction, input VAT, transaction costs |