Key legal question
Whether the appellant's arranger activity qualified as VAT-exempt credit brokerage under Art. 14 No. 15 lit. a MWSTV.
Extracted holding
No. The exemption applies only to direct representation, i.e. acting expressly in the name and for account of another; the appellant merely facilitated the transaction and attracted clients/banks.
Extracted reasoning
The Court held that the credit-brokerage exemption in MWSTV must be read consistently with the narrower representation concept in Art. 10 MWSTV. The contract showed the appellant as arranger, not as direct representative of the borrower, and the fee was consideration for a service of bringing together the banks, not for concluding the credit in another's name.