34This rule must be applied in accordance with the basic principle of that directive: that the VAT system is aimed at taxing only the end consumer (see, inter alia, Elida Gibbs, paragraph 19, and order of 9 December 2011 in Case C‑69/11 Connoisseur Belgium, paragraph 21).
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