Chapter IV: Taxable transactions (Title IV of Directive 2006/112/EC) [1]

Section 1: Supply of goods (Articles 14 to 19 of Directive 2006/112/EC) [2]

Article 5c [3]

For the application of Article 14a of Directive 2006/112/EC, a taxable person, who is deemed to have received and supplied the goods himself, shall not be held liable for the payment of VAT in excess of the VAT which he declared and paid on these supplies where all of the following conditions are met:

1. the taxable person is dependent on information provided by suppliers selling goods through an electronic interface or by other third parties in order to correctly declare and pay the VAT on those supplies;

2. the information referred to in point (a) is erroneous;

3. the taxable person can demonstrate that he did not and could not reasonably know that this information was incorrect.