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Council Directive 90/435/EEC of 23 July 1990 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member StatesLegal instrument | Directive |
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Number legal act | Directive 1990/435 |
Original proposal | COM(1969)6 |
CELEX number i | 31990L0435 |
Document | 23-07-1990 |
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Publication in Official Journal | 20-08-1990; Special edition in Bulgarian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Czech: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Lithuanian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Swedish: Chapter 09 Volume 002,Special edition in Polish: Chapter 09 Volume 001,OJ L 225, 20.8.1990,Special edition in Hungarian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Latvian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Romanian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Estonian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Slovenian: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Maltese: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Slovak: Chapter 09 Volume 001,Special edition in Finnish: Chapter 09 Volume 002 |
Effect | 30-07-1990; Entry into force Date notif. |
End of validity | 17-01-2012; Repealed by 32011L0096 |
Transposition | 01-01-1992; See Art 8 |
Notification | 30-07-1990 |
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Council Directive 90/435/EEC of 23 July 1990 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States
Official Journal L 225 , 20/08/1990 P. 0006 - 0009
Finnish special edition: Chapter 9 Volume 2 P. 0025
Swedish special edition: Chapter 9 Volume 2 P. 0025
COUNCIL DIRECTIVE of 23 July 1990 on the common system of taxation applicable in the case of parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States (90/435/EEC)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, and in particular Article 100 thereof,
Having regard to the proposal of the Commission (1),
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),
Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social Committee (3),
Whereas the grouping together of companies of different Member States may be necessary in order to create within the Community conditions analogous to those of an internal market and in order thus to ensure the establishment and effective functioning of the common market; whereas such operations ought not to be hampered by restrictions, disadvantages or distortions arising in particular from the tax provisions of the Member States; whereas it is therefore necessary to introduce with respect to such grouping together of companies of different Member States, tax rules which are neutral from the point of view of competition, in order to allow enterprises to adapt to the requirements of the common market, to increase their productivity and to improve their competitive strength at the international level;
Whereas such grouping together may result in the formation of groups of parent companies and subsidiaries;
Whereas the existing tax provisions which govern the relations between parent companies and subsidiaries of different Member States vary appreciably from one Member State to another and are generally less advantageous than those applicable to parent companies and subsidiaries of the same Member State; whereas cooperation between companies of different Member States is thereby disadvantaged in comparison with cooperation between companies of the same Member State; whereas it is necessary to eliminate this disadvantage by the introduction of a common system in order to facilitate the grouping together of companies;
Whereas where a parent company by virtue of its association with its subsidiary receives distributed profits, the State of the parent company must:
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-either refrain from taxing such profits,
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-or tax such profits while authorizing the parent company to deduct from the amount of tax due that fraction of the corporation tax paid by the subsidiary which relates to those profits;
Whereas it is furthermore necessary, in order to ensure fiscal neutrality, that the profits which a subsidiary distributes to its parent company be exempt from withholding tax; whereas, however, the Federal Republic of Germany and the Hellenic Republic, by reason of the particular nature of their corporate tax systems, and the Portuguese Republic, for budgetary reasons, should be authorized to maintain temporarily a withholding tax,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE:
Article 1
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1.Each Member State shall apply this Directive:
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-to distributions of profits received by companies of that State which come from their subsidiaries of other Member States,
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-to distributions of profits by companies of that State to companies of other Member States of which they are subsidiaries.
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2.This Directive shall not preclude the application of domestic or agreement-based provisions required for the prevention of fraud or abuse.
Article 2
For the purposes of this Directive 'company of a Member State' shall mean any company which:
(a) takes one of the forms listed in the Annex...
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