The Margin as Compensation for a Service

p class="MsoNormal"In this article, I examine the validity of this position taken by the ECJ. To this end, I have looked at previous cases that were referred to the ECJ where the margin (the difference between the purchase price and the sales price of goods or services) in a supply chain could possibly be regarded as consideration for a service. In addition, I analyse the original proposal of the European Commission regarding the VAT treatment of vouchers, which explicitly included a provision that stipulated that the margin was the consideration for a promotional or distribution service. I also analyse a report from the European Commission following a study into the implementation and application of the current EU rules on the VAT treatment of vouchers. I use this as a framework to see whether the position of the ECJ in the M-GbR case fits within this.span lang="EN-US"o:p/o:p/span