Overcharged import VAT recovery via IOSS return proposal The European Commission (EC) has proposed a solution to the problem of double taxation arising on the new Import One-Stop Shop process for declaring VAT on imports not exceeding €150. It suggests allowing sellers or deemed supplier
New guidance on cross-border €10,000 registration threshold; distance selling; registration and invoicing; marketplace deemed supplier France has issued new guidance on the implementation of the EU e-commerce VAT package which came into effect from 1 July 2021. This follows a public consultation in the Autumn.
Over 4,600 sellers had registered for IOSS at the start of October 2021 Update: the EU is proposing the €150 threshold for use of IOSS be withdrawn from 1 March 2028. We’re now a few months into the new IOSS pan-EU return regime, which enables
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
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
