32According to the Court’s settled case-law, the right of taxable persons to deduct the VAT due or already paid on goods purchased and services received as inputs from the VAT which they are liable to pay is a fundamental principle of the common system of VAT established by EU legislation (judgments of 11 December 2014, Idexx Laboratories Italia, C‑590/13, EU:C:2014:2429, paragraph 30 and the case-law cited, and of 15 September 2016, Senatex, C‑518/14, EU:C:2016:691, paragraph 26 and the case-law cited). As the Court has repeatedly held, the right of deduction is an integral part of the VAT scheme and in principle may not be limited (judgment of 15 September 2016, Senatex, C‑518/14, EU:C:2016:691, paragraph 37 and the case-law cited).
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