Judgment of the ECJ from 17 October 2002 in case C-339/99 Energie Steiermark Holding AG and Finanzlandesdirektion für Steiermark
1. Article 4(1)(c) of Council Directive 69/335/EEC of 17 July 1969 concerning indirect taxes on the raising of capital, as amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, is to be interpreted as meaning that the expression 'contribution of assets of any kind' used therein covers the payments which a parent company makes to a capital company, which is increasing its capital by the issue of new shares, to enable the acquisition of those shares by a subsidiary of that parent company.
2. Article 4(1)(c) of Directive 69/335, as amended by the abovementioned Act of Accession, is to be interpreted as meaning that the expression 'contribution of assets of any kind' used therein covers additional payments which a new member makes not to the capital company which is increasing its capital, but to subsidiaries of that company, when it is clear from the circumstances of the case that, from an economic point of view, the real recipient of those payments is that company.
3. Payments made subject to the fulfilment of a condition precedent amount to contributions within the meaning of Article 4(1)(c) of Directive 69/335, as amended by the said Act of Accession, only after that condition has been fulfilled.
4. Capital duty does not amount to a 'liability' or an 'expense' within the meaning of Article 5(1)(a) of Directive 69/335, as amended by the Act of Accession mentioned in paragraph 1 of the operative part of this judgment.
Source: curia.europa.eu
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