39That argument must be applied to a body governed by public law which acts as a public authority at the time when it purchases capital goods. Since that body did not at that time act as a taxable person it does not have, in the same way as an individual acting in furtherance of his own needs, any right to deduct the VAT paid by it in respect of those goods.
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