Estonia e-residency application now online

Re:Estonia e-residency application now online by reidrac on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @07:28AM (#9538127)

EU VAT doesn't work like that, Estonia is in the EU sigle market (and the Euro).

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_ta...

You may be right in the income and social tax, but I suspect establishing a business in Estonia may require visiting the country at some point.

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Re:Estonia e-residency application now online by ddeck on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @07:57AM (#9538233)

As I understood it, as of 2015 EU digital goods VAT must be paid based on the VAT in the customers country, regardless of whether the sellers business is located inside or outside the EU.

If so, what's the downside of having your business based in Estonia vs the US with respect to VAT?

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Re:Estonia e-residency application now online by jarek-foksa on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @10:59AM (#9539384)

If you and your small business are based in the US then you could ignore the VAT nonsense when selling to the customers from the EU [1]. It's not in the interest of the IRS to make you pay taxes in Europe.

[1] http://www.happybootstrapper.com/2014/im-us-whatll-happen-ju...

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