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Sure, the headline rate is applicable for most things, but not everything, and those differences can be important. For instance, if Amazon are selling children'
by talideon 10y ago
Sure, the headline rate is applicable for most things, but not everything, and those differences can be important. For instance, if Amazon are selling children's shoes into Ireland, they must charge 0% VAT. That's still a digital sale.
- thirdsun 10y agoWhen selling physical goods B2C within the european union the VAT rules of the seller's country apply. That means shoes shipped from Germany to Ireland come with the german VAT of 19%. However the sevice discussed in this submission deals with VAT for digital goods and services. Selling shoes, regardless if done via internet, phone or fax, is not considered a sale of a digital product.
- Silhouette 10y agoThat's a sale of goods, though, which isn't currently covered by the VAT rules and MOSS scheme that we're discussing here, and doesn't seem to be the intended use for the OP's API.
- talideon 10y agoThat still makes it rather useless as an API, when it could be reduced down to a conditional GET on a CSV file listing the countries and their headline VAT rates. For this to be useful as an API, it would need to deal with the actual complicated bits of VATMOSS, which is dealing with multiple different rates for different product types.