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I guess the difficulty will depend a lot on how helpful the local tax agency are. They should publish that kind of information to help their countries business

• Silhouette 12y ago
  It would certainly help to have basic things like a standard, reliable place to find all the relevant tax rates in a sensible machine-readable form and a way to get notifications automatically and in good time if any rate is going to change. That said, a lot of the madness appears to come directly from the EU rules themselves. Here in the UK, after dropping the ball initially, it seems like HMRC (the national tax collection agency) is trying to be helpful for smaller businesses who have been caught in the cross-fire between big businesses and governments. However, it's already clear that HMRC themselves have limited authority to act unilaterally, and ultimately they are required to enforce the tax rules given to them from above. The situation will only be fixed when European level government realises how badly it's screwed up, but right now they're more concerned with things like whether Greece is going to leave the Eurozone and potentially lead to a collapse in the Eurozone itself, so I'm not sure anyone is really listening as, ironically, they systematically undermine the very free trade that the predecessors of the EU were originally supposed to encourage.