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Re: Crowdfunding legal costs for case at the EU Court of Justice about Bitcoin/VAT
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tavitavi
on 23/08/2014, 09:43:00 UTC
It's a waste of time for laymen in this thread to try to sort out the directive and the outcome of this case, it doesn't work like that. I don't know how familiar you are with the European Union legal system, but this is very common practice. Directives are written very vaguely on purpose and it's then up to the European Court of Justice to interpret the exact workings and meaning when a specific case comes up. In practice they are not only interpreting what everybody can already read in the directive, but they are de facto creating the rules when they have to and they can be extremely creative in their interpretation. Like I said, this is very common and a very large number of regulations in the union are the results of rulings in the court rather than actually put down in words in some directive or legislation.
Also I'm not sure if everybody understands the great implications this will have with immediate effect in all 28 EU nations regardless of their national laws. It is of extreme importance that the lawyers get the funding to fully understand the protocol and work out their arguments in just three weeks so please donate money to this cause because the outcome could seriously cripple the bitcoin development in the EU and thus the entire ecosystem.

D.H: I just donated 0.25 BTC to your address and I truly hope the donations will start coming in at a faster rate than it is doing now. Have you reached out to Safello? They have extreme ambitions in the entire union and a negative ruling would hurt their business model significantly. Seeing as they also speak Swedish they could probably help you out a lot. I suggest you try to reach their CEO as soon as possible.