Opinion statement ECJ-TF 4/2014 of the CFE on the decision of the European Court of Justice of 23 January 2014 in SCA Group Holding BV et al. (joined cases C-39/13, C-40/13 and C-41/13), on the requirements to form a 'fiscal unity'

This Opinion Statement analyses the Court's decision in Joined Cases C‑39/13, C‑40/13 and C‑41/13, SCA Group Holding BV et al, of 12 June 2014, concerning the question whether the Netherlands violate the provisions on freedom of establishment if they refuse to form a "fiscal unity" ("fiscale eenheid") between domestic companies in cases where one or more intermediate companies are residents of another Member State (C-39/13 and C-41/13) or (2) the common parent company of two domestic sister companies is resident in another Member State (C-40/13). The Dutch "fiscal unity" treats separate entities as one taxable unit for corporate income tax purposes and hence enables, e.g., the full consolidation of profits and losses and disregarding of internal transactions, including reorganisations