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How long do the tax authorities sit on those payments before reimbursing them?

• fransje26 2y ago
  I don't know about the modalities in all the EU countries, but generally it's an indirect reimbursement, deducting the VAT you payed extra from the VAT you're supposed to hand over to the tax authorities. The readjustments are done monthly.
• locallost 2y ago
  It's not real reimbursement, you were reimbursed already when you "added value" and sold the goods or services to someone else for more than you paid for. The money you took contains VAT and most of that you will keep yourself because you paid for it. You will the take the say 20% you collected when you sold goods, subtract the VAT your supplier put on their invoice to you and give the rest to the government. You are in a way reimbursing the government. It's possible to get reimbursed by the government if you spent more money on VAT than you collected yourself - it happened to me as a freelancer if I spent more money on bills but either didn't generate any income or worked for foreign companies and my invoices were VAT free. When all of this happens depends on the jurisdiction I guess. I had to do it quarterly. Some other people I know did it yearly. "Real" companies are probably again different, and different in different countries.