Key legal question
Whether export subsidies under the 'Schoggigesetz' are subsidies or public contributions under Art. 26(6)(b) MWSTV.
Extracted holding
Yes. The export contributions are public subsidies because they are paid without a direct exchange of services and serve an agrarian-policy objective in the public interest.
Extracted reasoning
The payments are not consideration for a taxable supply; they offset price differences for raw materials and are granted solely to promote exports, so they fall within the subsidy concept developed in the court's case law.