40As the Commission points out, such an interpretation corresponds to the purpose of the applicable directives, which is to enable taxable persons to obtain refund of the input VAT where, in the absence of active taxable transactions in the Member State of refund, they could not deduct that input VAT paid from output VAT due.
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