74The restriction at issue cannot, next, be justified by the need to guarantee the coherence of the national tax system, which the Court has recognised as constituting an overriding public-interest ground. For an argument based on such a justification to succeed, it is necessary that a direct link be established between the tax advantage concerned and the offsetting of that advantage by a particular tax levy (judgments in Commission v Portugal, C‑345/05, EU:C:2006:685, paragraph 29, and Commission v Sweden, C‑104/06, EU:C:2007:40, paragraph 26).
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