Re:UK votes to leave EU
by sievebrain on Friday June 24, 2016 @05:54AM
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Good luck selling software across the EU if you live there. Check out the new VAT rules the EU imposed. It's less paperwork to sell to everywhere but the EU, which is madness.
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That's a different thing, you sure have the right to sell your software. Unification of VAT policies would be a hard sell for the member countries.
How is this different from having to account for different state and local taxes when selling software inside the US?
Your payment processor tacks on sales tax. Just list where you have nexus. You get a number at the end of the quarter that you pay when you file taxes.
With VAT, you have to keep careful track of input VAT and sometimes later claim repayment from various governments.
There is a lot of obligatory registration and document submission.
The velocity of legislative change is high, especially when summed across member states.
Small entities have an incentive to underreport. Thus, a lot of enforcement activity is targeted at small entities.