Key legal question
Whether commissions paid to venue owners had to be included in taxable turnover for VAT purposes.
Extracted holding
Yes. The taxable amount was the gross turnover from operating the machines, including commissions passed on to venue owners as consideration for placement of the machines.
Extracted reasoning
The activity was taxable, the commissions were economically linked to it, and the administration could estimate undeclared commissions at 35% under the estimation rule because the declared figures were incomplete.