Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the company could claim stock VAT relief under Art. 85 MWSTV after the VAT system change.
Extrahierter Entscheid
No. The company remained liable to turnover tax as a wholesaler, so the conditions for stock relief were not met.
Extrahierte Begründung
Stock relief under Art. 85 MWSTV requires that the taxpayer not have claimed turnover-tax credit as a wholesaler for the goods. Because the company was correctly retroactively re-entered as a wholesaler, the relief was unavailable; the authority had also taken account of the turnover taxes paid to suppliers.