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ECJ: Swedish legislation limiting exemption of third-country dividends justifiable restriction on EC free movement of capital – details

|Approved Changes|European Union-Sweden
European Union-Sweden

As previously reported, on 18 December 2007, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave its decision in the case of Skatteverket v. A (C-101/05). Details of the judgment are summarized below.

(a) Facts.  Facts and legal background.Under Swedish legislation, dividends (in the form of shares in a subsidiary) received, inter alia, from a parent company situated withi…

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