# Council Decision of 20 October 2009 authorising the Federal Republic of Germany to continue to apply a measure derogating from Article 168 of Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax (2009/791/EC), Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

By way of derogation from Article 168 and Article 168a of Directive 2006/112/EC, Germany is authorised to exclude completely value added tax (VAT) borne on goods and services from the right to deduct VAT when the goods and services in question are used more than 90 % for the private purposes of a taxable person or of his employees, or, more generally, for non-business purposes or non-economic activities.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/791/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-791/article-1
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