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August 13, 2026
PPWR and EPR: Your Questions Answered
The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) is changing how businesses think about packaging, recyclability and producer responsibility. For ecommerce sellers, the biggest question is simple: what do I need to do now to stay compliant?  What is PPWR?  PPWR stands for the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. It’s an EU regulation designed to reduce packaging waste and […]


August 11, 2026
Amazon Australia vs Shopify: When to Register for GST in Australia 
Amazon Australia (Amazon.com.au) is Australia’s most popular ecommerce site, and the 8th most popular website in the country. If you want to start selling your products in Australia it’s a great place to start. Amazon’s not the only way to reach Australian shoppers though and building your own store gives you much more control. Wherever you’re selling, in a country where online spending is up 14% year-on-year, getting started is the important part.  […]


August 3, 2026
Ecommerce News August 2026
VAT and Ecommerce news from around the world to help you stay up-to-date with the market. TL;DR: A Great Summer for UK Ecommerce According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), online sales volumes have risen every month between April and June 2026. The value of online spending in Great Britain rose by 2.8% compared with May and was […]


August 3, 2026
How VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA) is Changing Ecommerce
VAT in the Digital Age (or ViDA) is a large packet of VAT reforms being implemented by the EU. As you’ve probably noticed, tax rules and infrastructure don’t develop as fast as technology. Before the 2021 EU VAT reforms, much of Europe was working with laws written before ecommerce even existed. With that in mind, ViDA aims to update the EU’s VAT system, to make it fairer, […]


July 1, 2026
What is EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility)?
Extended Producer Responsibility - or EPR - is a term used to describe a certain kind of regulation. When the law requires producers to be in part responsible for the end of their product’s life, it’s considered EPR.  In 1990, Thomas Lindqvist and his colleague Karl Lidgren submitted a report to the Swedish Environment Ministry. It's in that report that Lindqvist, now Associate Professor and Director of Research at Lund University, coins the term […]


June 23, 2026
EU Small Parcel Levy and National Handling Fees
The EU Small Parcel Levy is a customs duty applied to all low-value parcels entering the EU. The €3 charge will come into effect on the 1st of July 2026 and applies EU-wide. It applies to each item in a consignment, according to its tariff headings.  The levy is a temporary measure to address what the EU considers an urgent issue. It will last until the […]
PPWR: EU Packaging Waste Regulations
PPWR stands for “Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation”. It’s a piece of EU legislation closely linked to EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility) and supersedes the existing Packaging Waste Directive. However, some rules from the Directive will still be effective. PPWR came into force in February 2025 but broadly speaking, the real-world application begins on the 12 of August 2026.  PPWR covers all packaging and packaging waste in the […]


April 30, 2026
How Voluntary Disclosure and Backdated VAT Can Save You Money
Voluntary disclosure describes telling a Tax Authority that you should have registered for VAT earlier than you did. Making a voluntary disclosure can help you reduce potential penalties if you’ve been non-compliant.  Because international VAT rules are complicated, it’s not uncommon for ecommerce businesses to not realise they’ve been non-compliant. Voluntary disclosure gives you a chance to address the mistake before it becomes a real problem.  What is Voluntary Disclosure?  […]


April 17, 2026
How SimplyVAT Helped Prevent a €7,000 Mistake
Our client is a manufacturing components distributor based in the Netherlands. They sell their products to businesses all over Europe. Over the year and half they’ve been working with SimplyVAT, we’ve helped them navigate the VAT on large wholesale orders to customers in multiple countries.  Business-to-Business VAT Support  Selling your products across international borders is complicated enough, without worrying about the VAT treatment of a transaction. […]


March 24, 2026
4 Ways to Explain the IOSS Limit to Your Customers
The IOSS limit is the 150-euro intrinsic value threshold that applies to parcels shipped under the scheme. IOSS (Import One Stop Shop) makes it easy to deal with VAT when you’re selling to customers in the EU. But you can only use it for orders worth less than €150. Orders worth more than that will have to be shipped DAP (Delivered at Place), which […]
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