> In any case, if the tax authorities who are experts on the rules can't find a way to codify and explain them to small businesses, surely it's self-evident tha

> In any case, if the tax authorities who are experts on the rules can't find a way to codify and explain them to small businesses, surely it's self-evident that the rules are too complicated for non-expert small businesses to work with and should be replaced with something fit for purpose? Full ack. Still, that's the current state. To make matters worse, those rules are subject to change and open to interpretation. Example: We just did an ElasticSearch training for a members of a german company that sits in Hamburg. However, the contract was via an austrian consulting company and we were just the subcontractors. Now, the question of wether we have to pay vat or not hinges around the question of that austrian company does have a german branch office or not. The first thing our tax accountant did was grab the folder with tax laws and read up on what could possibly declared as a "branch office". Is a permanent representative enough or not? Go, codify that.