Double taxation in business tax assessment; refund of overpaid tax

ATA/538/1997Cour de justice / Chambre administrative9 sept. 1997Granted

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Résumé Omnilex

Two successive companies were each billed business tax for the same year on the same accounting elements. The court found an impermissible double taxation situation and held that the excess amount paid had to be refunded.

Regeste Omnilex

LCP.367 al.1 and 3; double taxation by duplicate business tax assessments addressed to successive companies for the same fiscal year and the same accounting basis is inadmissible. Where the same taxable elements are assessed twice because one company is replaced by another upon succession, the excess tax paid must be restituted.

Texte intégral

Descripteurs

IMPOT; DOUBLE IMPOSITION; RESTITUTION DE L'IMPOT; VG

Normes

LCP.367 al.1; LCP.367 al.3

Résumé

Deux sociétés se succédant, l'une disparaissant à la naissance de l'autre. Deux bordereaux de taxe professionnelle communale, adressés chacun à ces deux sociétés et portant, pour la même année, sur les mêmes éléments comptables. Double imposition. Restitution du trop payé. Deux sociétés se succédant, l'une disparaissant à la naissance de l'autre. Deux bordereaux de taxe professionnelle communale, adressés chacun à ces deux sociétés et portant, pour la même année, sur les mêmes éléments comptables. Double imposition. Restitution du trop payé.

Mots-clés

taxationdouble taxationrefundbusiness taxcorporate succession

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Question juridique clé

Whether two business tax assessments addressed to successive companies for the same year and the same accounting elements amount to double taxation.

Solution extraite

Yes. The duplicate assessments could not both stand for the same taxable basis and period.

Motifs extraits

Because one company disappeared upon the creation of the other, taxing both for the same accounting elements and the same year resulted in an impermissible duplication of the tax burden.

Question juridique clé

Whether the overpaid business tax must be refunded.

Solution extraite

Yes. The excess tax paid must be restituted.

Motifs extraits

Once the duplicate taxation is identified, the taxpayer is entitled to restitution of the amount paid in excess.

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