Official Journal of the European Union

C 19/6

(Case C-491/18)

(2020/C 19/07)

Language of the case: Polish

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: Mennica Wrocławska sp. z o.o.

Respondent: Dyrektor Izby Administracji Skarbowej we Wrocławiu

By order of 13 December 2018, the Court (Tenth Chamber) ruled that Articles 168(a), 178(a) and 226 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax, as amended by Council Directive 2010/45/EU of 13 July 2010, must be interpreted as precluding the national tax authorities from refusing to allow a taxable person the right to deduct the input value added tax due or paid for the sole reason that the invoices drawn up contain an error as to the identification of the goods which were the subject of the transactions in question, even though the taxable person had provided to the tax authorities, before those authorities took a decision in his regard, the documents and explanations necessary for determining what the actual subject matter of those transactions was and for establishing that those transactions had indeed taken place.