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Document 62012CN0362
Case C-362/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) made on 30 July 2012 — Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Case C-362/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) made on 30 July 2012 — Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Case C-362/12: Reference for a preliminary ruling from Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) made on 30 July 2012 — Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
OJ C 311, 13.10.2012, p. 5–5
(BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)
13.10.2012 |
EN |
Official Journal of the European Union |
C 311/5 |
Reference for a preliminary ruling from Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (United Kingdom) made on 30 July 2012 — Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation v Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
(Case C-362/12)
2012/C 311/05
Language of the case: English
Referring court
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Parties to the main proceedings
Applicant: Test Claimants in the Franked Investment Income Group Litigation
Defendants: Commissioners of Inland Revenue, Commissioners for Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
Questions referred
1. |
Where under the law of a Member State a taxpayer can choose between two alternative causes of action in order to claim restitution of taxes levied contrary to Articles 49 and 63 TFEU and one of those causes of action benefits from a longer limitation period, is it compatible with the principles of effectiveness, legal certainty and legitimate expectations for that Member State to enact legislation curtailing that longer limitation period without notice and retrospectively to the date of the public announcement of the proposed new legislation? |
2. |
Does it make any difference to the answer to Question 1 that, at the moment when the taxpayer issued its claim using the cause of action which benefited from the longer limitation period, the availability of the cause of action under national law had only been recognised (i) recently and (ii) by a lower court and was not definitively confirmed by the highest judicial authority until later? |