Sharing best practices on tax administration and collections to reduce missing VAT The European Commission is developing its VAT Gap Initiative in the third quarter of 2022 to help exchange ideas between EU member states’ tax administrations to help close the EU VAT Gap. This
European Commission VAT reforms public consultation extended 20 days The EC has stretched out the public consultation deadline of its VAT in the Digital reforms from 15 April to 5 May 2022. The public call for evidence phased completed on 17 February. The consultation seeks
Tax subsidies for domestic power and foodstuffs as inflation hits new highs A fast-growing queue of European countries are emerging to cut their already reduced VAT rates on domestic energy. Energy price rises in January 2022 were the biggest contributor to the rise in Eurozone inflation
3 reforms: e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements (DRR); platform gig & sharing economies and e-commerce; and Single EU registration number – extension of OSS to all B2C and certain B2B The European Commission (EC) will shortly be initiating the next rounds of its ‘VAT in
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
VAT – gig and sharing economies As part of the VAT in the Digital Age review of the impact and best policies for indirect tax reforms, the European Commission is reviewing ‘VAT Treatment of the Platform Economy’. This includes the VAT effects for the gig
Can the definitive VAT system or other reforms close fraud gap? The European Parliament has reviewed a range of measures to close EU VAT Gap – the difference between forecast VAT revenues versus actuals. This was as a formal European added value (EAV) assessment, to
As part of the 1 July 2021 EU e-commerce reform package, online platforms (electronic interface) now take on the VAT obligations of certain transaction of their third-party sellers. Although their remains a Special Arrangements loophole. Marketplace take on their sellers’ EU VAT obligations In an
The EU has now withdrawn its e-commerce distance selling thresholds from 1 July 2021. This is part of its e-commerce VAT package reforms. EU or non-EU sellers will have to charge the VAT rate of their customer when selling them across an EU internal border
