The following table shows changes in the Group’s existing deferred tax assets deriving, as a matter of principle, from tax loss carryforwards:
| 31 December 2017 | 31 December 2016 | |||||||||||||||
| (in EUR thousands) | Loss carried forward | Deferred tax assets |
Loss carried forward | Deferred tax assets |
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| Corporation tax including Solidarity Surcharge | 119,725 | 18,947 | 111,742 | 17,683 | ||||||||||||
| Business tax | 107,962 | 17,949 | 100,716 | 16,744 | ||||||||||||
| U.S. corporation tax | 8,026 | 2,007 | 1,673 | 418 | ||||||||||||
| Total | 38,903 | 34,845 | ||||||||||||||