The legislative concept of the Corporate Tax Reform of 2008 justifies fiscally motivated individual provisions.
The first senate of the Federal Fiscal Court (Bundesfinanzhof, BFH) dealt with the consequences of the far reaching Corporate Tax Reform Act of 2008 in a judgment dated 17 January 2014 (I R 21/12) and declared the amended concurrence between trade tax, income tax and corporate income tax as compliant with the constitution. The Court’s decision proves the broad tax legislative discretion of the German legislative body.
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