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The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has held that it is discriminatory for a Member State to impose a withholding tax on dividends distributed by a company established in that Member State to a company established in another Member State, while exempting dividends paid to a company subject to corporation tax in the first Member State or that has a permanent establishment in the Member State, which owns shares in the company paying the dividend
