Louis Triggs analyses Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust v Revenue and Customs Commissioners (SC), examining whether duty-backed guidance combined with a public law obligation to follow it constituted a “special legal regime” sufficient to satisfy the capacity condition under Article 13 of the VAT Directive.

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