42In addition, the Court has held, in the context of the reverse charge procedure, that the principle of VAT neutrality requires deduction of input tax to be allowed if the substantive requirements are satisfied, even if the taxable person has failed to comply with some of the formal requirements (Joined Cases C-95/07 and C-96/07 Ecotrade [2008] ECR I-3457, paragraph 63, and Case C-392/09 Uszodaépítö [2010] ECR I-8791, paragraph 39). Where the tax authority has the information necessary to establish that the taxable person is, as the recipient of the supplies in question, liable to VAT, it cannot impose, in relation to the right of that taxable person to deduct that tax, additional conditions which may have the effect of rendering that right ineffective (Ecotrade, paragraph 64, and Uszodaépítö, paragraph 40).
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