Questão jurídica principal
Whether the turnover of two sole proprietorships owned by the same natural person must be aggregated for VAT purposes.
Decisão extraída
Yes. A natural person operating several sole proprietorships is one taxable person; the businesses themselves are not separate VAT subjects.
Fundamentação extraída
VAT liability attaches to the legal subject, not to the activity. Registration of a sole proprietorship in the commercial register does not create legal personality. Therefore all turnover from the person's sole proprietorships must be combined, even if the activities, accounts, locations, or trade names differ.