Category: European VAT

Spain makes changes to its use and enjoyment rules in 2023 Until the end of 2022, most services supplied by Spanish businesses to customers located outside the European Union were subject to Spanish VAT. This was due to the extended…

Switzerland to introduce platform taxation from 2025 The Swiss Federal Department of Finance is planning to introduce further tax obligations on online marketplaces from 2025. Under this platform taxation project, all marketplace operators will account and remit the VAT on…

Amazon urging sellers to confirm trader’s information as part of upcoming DAC7 The DAC7 obligation is looming for online marketplaces which will need to start reporting seller’s revenue and business information to tax authorities on an annual basis when facilitating…

Belgium to revamp and modernise its ‘VAT chain’ In March 2023, the Belgian government enacted a new bill that will modernise the VAT chain from 1 January 2024. The changes include the creation of a new ‘compte-provisions TVA’ will allow…

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Belgium proposes to modernise its VAT compliance system The Belgian Parliament published on 7th February 2023 a proposed bill to modernise the country’s VAT collection system with key changes to the processing of VAT returns and payments. From the introduction…

France transfers VAT registration-related formalities to the INPI portal On 1 January 2023, the French government transferred all VAT registration, changes of company details and deregistration requests to the online one-stop shop of the INPI, the French National Institute of…

Italy announces pre-filled annual VAT returns for certain taxpayers The Italian authorities have announced the introduction of pre-filled annual VAT returns for certain taxpayers from February 2023. With pre-filled tax declarations, the data is first made available real-time to the…

SimplyVAT.com’s Consultancy Team helps business claim €1m VAT refund  When the new schemes were introduced in 2021, some businesses may have found it difficult to decipher whether they were registering for the correct one. The MOSS expanded into the OSS…

Lithuania increases VAT fines from 1 May 2023 The Lithuanian government recently adopted changes which will increase the fines applicable to unreasonable VAT breaches. Taking effect as of 1 May 2023, VAT fines will be increased from a range of…