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Is there any reason to ask for the country of the business/seller? As far as I know it's irrelevant and the VAT only depends on the buyer's country (for digital
by thirdsun 10y ago
Is there any reason to ask for the country of the business/seller? As far as I know it's irrelevant and the VAT only depends on the buyer's country (for digital goods/services).
- mherrmann 10y agoThe GitHub page [1] of the project this API is based on says it is required for calculating tax when selling in one's own country. I don't know in which exact case though. [1]: https://github.com/mpociot/vat-calculator https://github.com/mpociot/vat-calculator
- nik736 10y agoYou need it for sure. Example: I have my business in Germany. If I write an invoice to a german company I add 19% VAT. If I sell to a company inside the EU but not in Germany I add 0%, since it's a reverse charge. That means that the company in the EU country directly pays the taxes to their country and I don't have to pay it to my country. This solves a lot of bureaucracy hassle. Exception is where I am selling to no business, but a private person within the EU, I will charge VAT there and pay it to my country which redirects it to the EU country (that's called MOSS).
- thirdsun 10y agoI'm aware of that. However since the service in question only seems to handle the business to consumer case, I don't see a need for asking for seller's country.