14.12.2013
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
C 367/19
Judgment of the Court (Tenth Chamber) of 24 October 2013 (request for a preliminary ruling from the Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție — Romania) — Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală v SC Rafinăria Steaua Română SA
(Case C-431/12) (1)
(Taxation - Value added tax - Refund of excess VAT by set-off - Annulment of set-off decision - Obligation to pay default interest to the taxable person)
2013/C 367/32
Language of the case: Romanian
Referring court
Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Agenția Națională de Administrare Fiscală
Defendant: SC Rafinăria Steaua Română SA
Re:
Request for a preliminary ruling — Înalta Curte de Casație și Justiție — Interpretation of Article 183 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (OJ 2006 L 347, p. 1) — Refund of excess VAT by set-off — Obligation on the tax authorities to pay default interest where the set-off decisions are annulled by a court
Operative part of the judgment
Article 183 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax must be interpreted as precluding a situation in which a taxable person, having made a claim for refund of excess input value added tax over the value added tax which it is liable to pay, cannot obtain from the tax authorities of a Member State default interest on a refund made late by those authorities in respect of a period during which administrative measures precluding the refund, which were subsequently annulled by a court ruling, were in force.
(1) OJ C 399, 22.12.2012.
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