25.6.2011

Official Journal of the European Union

C 186/12

(Case C-153/11)

2011/C 186/21

Language of the case: Bulgarian

Referring court

Parties to the main proceedings

Applicant: OOD Klub

Defendant: Director of the Varna Office ‘Appeals and the Administration of Enforcement’ at the Central Office of the National Revenue Agency (Direktor na Direktsia ‘Obzhalvane i upravlenie na izpalnenieto’ — Varna pri Tsentralno upravlenie na Natsionalnata agentsia za prihodite)

Questions referred

1.Is Article 168(1)(a) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 (1) on the common system of value added tax to be interpreted as meaning that — once a taxable person has exercised his option and allocated property constituting capital goods to his business assets — it must be presumed (that is to say assumed in the absence of evidence to the contrary), that these goods are used for the purposes of taxable transactions effected by the taxable person?

2.Is Article 168(1)(a) of Council Directive 2006/112/EC to be interpreted as meaning that the right of deduction on the purchase of an immovable property which is allocated to the business assets of a taxable person arises immediately in the tax period in which the tax became due, regardless of the fact that the property cannot be used in view of the absence of approval for its commissioning as required by law?

3.Is an administrative practice such as that of the Natsionalna Agentsia po Prihodite, according to which the right of deduction claimed by persons liable for value added tax on capital goods purchased by them is refused on the grounds that those goods are used for the private purposes of the owners of the companies, without value added tax being imposed on this use, consistent with the directive?

4.In circumstances such as those of the main proceedings does the company, namely the applicant, have a right of deduction on the purchase of an immovable property, namely a maisonette in Sofia?

Language of the case: Bulgarian

(1) OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1