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- Non-profit refers to absence of financial advantage to members (not absence of surplus)

 

"[33] Although that distinction is not to be found in any of the other language versions of the Sixth Directive, it is borne out by the objective of the provisions contained in Article 13A thereof. As the Advocate General points out in paragraph 57 to 61 of his Opinion, it is not profits (bénéfices), in the sense of surpluses arising at the end of an accounting year, which preclude categorisation of an organisation as non-profit-making, but profit (profit) in the sense of financial advantages for the organisation's members. Consequently, as the Commission also points out, the condition set out in the first indent of Article 13A(2)(a) essentially replicates the criterion of non-profit-making organisation as contained in Article 13A(1)(m)." (Kennemer Golf C-174/00)

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