Prohibition of Abuse of (Community) Law: The Creation of a New General Principle of EC Law Through Tax

de la Feria, R.

Prohibition of Abuse of (Community) Law: The Creation of a New General Principle of EC Law Through Tax

de la Feria, R.

Authors

R. de la Feria

Abstract

The Court of Justice has been alluding to abuse and abusive practices in its rulings for more than thirty years.For a long time however the significance of these references was unclear. Not many commentators delved into this issue, and the few that did doubted whether the references by the Court to abuse amounted to the development of a general Community principle of abuse of law. This state of affairs has changed radically within the last few years, largely due to jurisprudential developments within the field of tax. This paper analyses the evolution of the Court’s case law on abuse, from the first cases on free movement of services, to the latest rulings on taxation. It then considers whether the case law developed by the Court, on what has been designated as “prohibition of abuse of law”, does indeed amount to a new general principle of Community law.

Citation

de la Feria, R. (2008). Prohibition of Abuse of (Community) Law: The Creation of a New General Principle of EC Law Through Tax. Common Market Law Review, 45(2), 395-441

Journal Article Type	Article
Publication Date	Jan 1, 2008
Deposit Date	Nov 26, 2012
Publicly Available Date	Jun 6, 2016
Journal	Common Market Law Review
Print ISSN	0165-0750
Publisher	Kluwer Law International
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	45
Issue	2
Pages	395-441
Publisher URL	http://www.kluwerlawonline.com/abstract.php?area=Journals&id=COLA2008027