The EU e-commerce VAT package launch on 1 July 2021 aimed to simplify Value Added Tax reporting for sellers, but also reduce fraud and give marketplaces a new role taking on VAT obligations of their sellers. The reforms implemented captured non-EU sellers and marketplaces selling to EU
The European Member states have agreed for member states to extend the same VAT registration thresholds enjoyed by domestic businesses to EU taxpayers from other member states (non-resident). The aim is to encourage EU businesses to trade within the Single Market by cutting the costs
Three member states fail to clarify proper adoption of new July 2021 e-commerce VAT rules The EU’s European Commission has warned with a Letter of Formal Notice Croatia, Denmark and Lithuania that they have failed to detail their implementations of the July 2021 e-commerce package
The German Ministry of Finance has highlighted a very low uptake of the new Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS) scheme to report sales of imported goods to EU consumers. IOSS is part of the EU e-commerce VAT package reforms introduced on 1 July 2021 to limit
The UK’s HMRC has updated its guidance on the distance selling obligations for goods being sold from Northern Ireland to consumers in the EU. This reflects the EU e-commerce VAT package of 1 July 2021, and how that works given NI’s dual status in the
The introduction on 1 July 2021 of the new Import One-Stop Shop IOSS is helping thousands of sellers report sales VAT on their sales of imported consignments not exceeding €150. But deemed supplier marketplaces or ‘electronic interfaces’ may also opt to use them too. Register
May 2023 update: The EC has proposed ending the €150 VAT threshold on consignment stocks from March 2028. On 1 July 2021, the EU e-commerce package introduced the obligation to charge sales VAT at the point-of-sale on sales of goods consignments with an intrinsic value
The European Union member states have adopted changes to the data sharing rules to facilitate fraud detection around the new IOSS import VAT scheme which was implemented as part of the EU e-commerce VAT package on 1 July 2021. IOSS exempts consignments not exceeding €150
The EU e-commerce VAT package introduced the requirement for non-EU sellers or marketplaces using the new import scheme – IOSS Import One-Stop Shop – to appoint an EU resident Intermediary. IOSS is the new return introduced from 1 July 2021 for reporting the import distance
E-commerce sales of goods to Northern Ireland (NI) from the rest of the UK (Great Britain or GB) now have special rules following the 1 July introduction of the EU’s e-commerce VAT package VAT. This may affect UK sellers who are EU IOSS registered selling
