"Income tax" for corporations means "profit tax". The 1.500 euros is never called "income" but "Revenue", or "Net Revenue", or "Net Sales turnover" or something similar. But never "income" -"income" is equivalent to "profit", for companies or professionals. (*)
"Profits" are calculated as "Net Revenues minus tax-deductible expenses".
"Net Revenues" means revenues without taking into account any Sales tax (like the V.A.T is). This is what the "net" signifies here.
So the tax rate will be applied to the 500 euros in your example.
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(*) When a professional says "my income is 20.000 EUR" he means "revenues minus professional expenses". When filing a tax-return, he will be taxed on the 20.000 EUR, minus any "living-expenses" tax deductions provisioned for natural persons (like maybe health care etc).
When a person that only works as an employee states "my income is 20.000 EUR", then he has not deducted any expenses from his wages, because it is considered that this person has no professional expenses, only "living" expenses.