41The Court has also held that the common tax rules laid down by Directive 90/434, which cover different tax advantages, apply without distinction to all mergers, divisions, transfers of assets or exchanges of shares irrespective of the reasons, whether financial, economic or simply fiscal, for those operations (Leur-Bloem, paragraph 36, and Kofoed, paragraph 30).
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