Key legal question
Whether the services invoiced to the Spanish company were exempt or non-taxable as foreign services
Extracted holding
No exemption could be granted because the nature of the services was not proven with sufficient, contemporaneous documentation.
Extracted reasoning
Under both the old VAT ordinance and the VAT Act, the taxpayer had to prove not only that the recipient was abroad, but also, depending on the legal regime, the nature and localization/use of the services. The documents produced did not clearly establish the type of services, and post-control documents had no probative value.