{"id":453,"date":"2010-12-29T07:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T05:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/?p=453"},"modified":"2018-02-21T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:23:19","slug":"vykorystannja-rishen-verhovnogo-sudu-ukrainy-jak-precedentu-v-sudovyh-sporah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/analytics\/infoletters\/vykorystannja-rishen-verhovnogo-sudu-ukrainy-jak-precedentu-v-sudovyh-sporah\/","title":{"rendered":"Application of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Ukraine as precedents in litigations regarding value added tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is generally known that precedent is not applied in the legal system of Ukrainian. However in accordance with the recent amendments to the Code of Administrative Proceedings of Ukraine (hereinafter \u2013 &#8220;the Code&#8221;) there are all grounds to talk about implementation of the so-called quasi-precedent law.<\/p>\n<p>Thus one of the Code\u2019s novelties set by the Law of Ukraine &#8220;On Judicial System and Status of Judges&#8221; # 2453-VI dated July 07, 2010 is prescribed in Article 244\u00b2 and envisages the following:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>&#8220;<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\"><strong>Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine <\/strong>adopted upon the results of consideration of the application on reviewing a court decision on the ground of different application by an cassation instance court (courts) of the same norms of the substantive law in the similar legal relationships <strong>is obligatory<\/strong> for all authorities that use regulatory legal act, which contains mentioned norms, in their activity, and <strong>for all courts of Ukraine<\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Courts are obliged to bring their practice in accordance with the <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine<\/span><\/strong><\/span><em><strong>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Hereby Decisions of the Supreme Court of Ukraine get a quasi-precedent nature and shall be taken into consideration upon adoption of decisions by inferior instance courts.<\/p>\n<p>Taking into account stated above the attention should be paid to Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine dated October 29, 2010 in the court case CJSC &#8220;Mukachivskyy Lisokombinat&#8221; against Mukachivska United State Tax Inspection of Zakarpatskiy District.<\/p>\n<p>In this Decision the Supreme Court of Ukraine confirmed the right of diligent taxpayer for a value added tax (hereinafter \u2013 &#8220;VAT&#8221;) credit and VAT refund regardless of tax liabilities execution by his counterpart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'courier new', courier, monospace;\">In accordance with the opinion of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, <strong>the fact of<\/strong> <strong>nonpayment of VAT to the budget by seller or his counterpart <\/strong>in the case of factual performance of business transaction<strong> does not influence on VAT credit formation by customer and can\u2019t serve as a ground for deprivation of the latter of VAT refund <\/strong>if he complied with all determined by Law conditions for such VAT refund and possesses of all necessary documentation for confirmation of the amount of declared VAT credit<\/span><em>&#8220;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The abovementioned Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine dated October 29, 2010 can be used by diligent taxpayer as a quasi-precedent for the purpose of protection from tax authorities\u2019 encroachments on VAT credit and declared amounts of VAT refund.<\/p>\n<p>We trust that the above information will be useful for you.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The above commentary presents the general statement for information purposes only and as such may not be practically used in specific cases without professional advice.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Newsletter available in Ukrainian and English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/newsletters\/km-partners-nl-precedent-vat.pdf\" class=\"mtli_attachment mtli_pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download pdf-file of the Newsletter (167,0 Kb)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h4>Application of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Ukraine as precedents in litigations regarding value added tax<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> Newsletter <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>29 December 2010<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is generally known that precedent is not applied in the legal system of Ukrainian. However in accordance with the recent amendments to the Code of Administrative Proceedings of Ukraine (hereinafter \u2013 &#8220;the Code&#8221;) there are all grounds to talk about implementation of the so-called quasi-precedent law.<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thus one of the Code\u2019s novelties set by the Law of Ukraine &#8220;On Judicial System and Status of Judges&#8221; # 2453-VI dated July 07, 2010 is prescribed in Article 244\u00b2 and envisages the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8220;Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine <\/strong>adopted upon the results of consideration of the application on reviewing a court decision on the ground of different application by an cassation instance court (courts) of the same norms of the substantive law in the similar legal relationships <strong>is obligatory<\/strong> for all authorities that use regulatory legal act, which contains mentioned norms, in their activity, and <strong>for all courts of Ukraine<\/strong>. <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Courts are obliged to bring their practice in accordance with the <\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine<\/span><\/strong><strong>&#8220;.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hereby Decisions of the Supreme Court of Ukraine get a quasi-precedent nature and shall be taken into consideration upon adoption of decisions by inferior instance courts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taking into account stated above the attention should be paid to Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine dated October 29, 2010 in the court case CJSC &#8220;Mukachivskyy Lisokombinat&#8221; against Mukachivska United State Tax Inspection of Zakarpatskiy District.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In this Decision the Supreme Court of Ukraine confirmed the right of diligent taxpayer for a value added tax (hereinafter \u2013 &#8220;VAT&#8221;) credit and VAT refund regardless of tax liabilities execution by his counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In accordance with the opinion of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, <strong>the fact of<\/strong> <strong>nonpayment of VAT to the budget by seller or his counterpart <\/strong>in the case of factual performance of business transaction<strong> does not influence on VAT credit formation by customer and can\u2019t serve as a ground for deprivation of the latter of VAT refund <\/strong>if he complied with all determined by Law conditions for such VAT refund and possesses of all necessary documentation for confirmation of the amount of declared VAT credit&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The abovementioned Decision of the Supreme Court of Ukraine dated October 29, 2010 can be used by diligent taxpayer as a quasi-precedent for the purpose of protection from tax authorities\u2019 encroachments on VAT credit and declared amounts of VAT refund.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We trust that the above information will be useful for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely yours, <br \/> <em>KM Partners<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Newsletter available in Ukrainian and English.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/newsletters\/km-partners-nl-precedent-vat.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/files\/znachok-pdfa.gif\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"images\/newsletters\/km-partners-nl-precedent-vat.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Download pdf-file of the Newsletter (167 KB)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infoletters","tag-tax-repel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmp.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}