Double Taxation Isn’t Infringement of Rights, EU Court Says

The European Court of Justice backed Italian rules that subject a gambling company to double taxation, saying member states have the right to exercise autonomy in their tax policies.

EU rules don’t preclude countries from making data transmission centers established within their borders “liable to a tax on betting jointly and severally with the betting operators, their clients, which are established in another Member State, irrespective of where those operators are established and of the absence of a licence to organise betting,” the court held on Wednesday.

• A Malta gambling company, Stanleybet Malta Ltd, had challenged ...