Risk of missing trader VAT fraud in natural gas wholesale markets prompts zero-rating 1 January 2025 Hungary has become the latest country to introduce the VAT reverse charge on domestic gas trading transactions. This removes the VAT cash payment on wholesale deals which are subject
Oct 2024: EC grants Germany VAT Directive emissions trading derogation extension The Council of the EU has permitted Germany to extend the domestic reverse charge on carbon emission trading to prevent suspected VAT fraud. This includes missing trader fraud where criminals claim to be selling
Option to defer import VAT payments until next VAT return The Slovak Republic now enables importers to avoid the cash payment of import VAT by introducing deferred VAT from 1 July 2024. Traders are able to report the import through their Slovakian VAT return and
2025 removal of cash element of VAT from B2B domestic construction services to fight fraud Greece’s Ministry of Finance is proposing in its 2025 Budget to adopt Article 199 of the EU VAT Directive for the VAT Act, which mandates the shift of VAT compliance
VAT-fraud measure proposal for B2B construction and personnel services Israel’s parliament, Knesset, is considering a proposal to impose mandatory domestic reverse charge on VAT for the provision of construction and staff services. The aim is to tackle VAT fraud were the tax element of such
Anti-VAT fraud measure from January 2024 Denmark is to be the latest EU member state to introduce the domestic reverse charge on business-to-business supplies of telephony services. The anti-VAT fraud measure will come into effect from 1 January 2024. The measure applies to B2B wholesale
30 October 2023 – Mobile phones, tablets etc subject to anti VAT fraud measure The United Arab Emirates has imposed the use of the VAT reverse charge on the domestic B2B sales of a range of electronic devices. The obligation for the supplier to not
Avoid paying import UK VAT on goods arriving from the EU or rest of world The UK introduced its new deferred import VAT regime, Postponed VAT Accounting (PVA) following its departure from the EU VAT regime from 1 January 2021. The relief will enable importers
Risk of missing trader VAT fraud in energy wholesale markets prompts zero-rating until February 2025 Poland has become the latest country to introduce the VAT reverse charge on domestic energy trading transactions. This removes the VAT cash payment on wholesale deals which are subject to
New digital reporting obligations lay foundations for major shift in tax collections between member states? The recently announced EU VAT in the Digital Age ViDA reforms could help build the detailed transaction reporting that addresses objections to the long delayed Definitive VAT System. This reform
