41In relation to direct taxes, the situations of residents and of non-residents in a given State are not generally comparable, since there are objective differences between them both from the point of view of the source of the income and from that of their ability to pay tax or the possibility of taking account of their personal and family circumstances (Wielockx, paragraph 18, citing Schumacher, paragraph 31 et seq.).
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