(Reference for a preliminary ruling– Value added tax (VAT)– Directive 2006/112
Tribunal de Justicia de la Unión Europea

(Reference for a preliminary ruling– Value added tax (VAT)– Directive 2006/112

Fecha: 03-Feb-2022

German law

12Paragraph12 of the Umsatzsteuergesetz (Law on Turnover Tax) provides:

‘(1)The rate of tax shall be 19% of the taxable amount in respect of every taxable transaction (Paragraphs10 and 11, Paragraph25(3) and Paragraph25a(3) and (4)).

(2)The rate of tax shall be reduced to 7% in respect of the following transactions:

1.supplies, imports and intra-community acquisitions of the goods described in Annex2 save for those goods referred to in point49(f) and points53 and 54;

…’

13Point48 of Annex2 to that law is worded as follows:

[Order No]

Description of the goods

Customs tariff (chapter, heading, subheading)

48

Wood, namely:



(a) Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms

Subheading 44011000


(b) Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms

Subheading 440130