> In the mean time, I dread having a customer in another EU country due to the damn VAT which requires a separate fiscal/declaratory dance. For what it's worth

> In the mean time, I dread having a customer in another EU country due to the damn VAT which requires a separate fiscal/declaratory dance. For what it's worth, the EC recognizes that this is a huge issue, and it is discussed in e.g. the 2020 tax package action plan: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/2020_tax_package_tax_action_plan_en.pdf https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/sites/taxation/files/2... > However, tax compliance costs remain high in the EU. Particularly, we need to support young and innovative businesses that struggle more with administrative complexity than big multinationals. Compliance costs are typically substantially higher for small than for large companies. Estimated tax compliance costs for large companies amount to about 2% of taxes paid, while for SMEs the estimate is about 30% of taxes paid. Moreover, the complexity that arises from the patchwork of 27 different tax systems not only creates loopholes for tax abuse, but also uncertainty for honest taxpayers that are simply overwhelmed and thus inadvertently do not comply with the rules. Whether the actions they've outlined will remedy this remains to be seen, but at least they are trying.