47It should nevertheless be specified that if it should transpire that the applicant in the main proceedings supplied services subject to VAT, which are characteristic of its economic activity, only to some of its subsidiaries, which it is for the referring court to verify, the VAT paid on the general costs can be deducted only in proportion to those inherent to the economic activity of the applicant in the main proceedings in its capacity as a taxable person, in accordance with a method which it is for the Member States to determine (see, to that effect, judgment of 5 July 2018, Marle Participations, C‑320/17, EU:C:2018:537, paragraph 37).
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