Hiding the true substance of one transaction by substituting another to obtain a tax advantage is not an unusual case heard by the courts. This time the court ruled in favour of the State Revenue Service (SRS) after finding that a taxable person had wrongly deducted input VAT according to a supplier’s pro forma invoices for the purchase of movables, because the real transactions are recognised as the transfer of a business as a going concern, which is outside the scope of VAT.