Existing client offer only – VAT registration in Sweden
Date21 Oct 2020
Categoryamavat Announcement
Recently Amazon announced that they are targeting Northern Europe and following on from that an Amazon marketplace in Sweden within the next year. Currently, Swedish customers are directed to the...
Belgium adopts the ECJ’s position on unfinished invoices
Date01 Feb 2018
CategoryVAT Compliance
Belgium has implemented the recent ECJ jurisprudence regarding the right to subtract VAT on invoices with missing details. On the 12th October, 2017 the authorities published a circular letter 2017/c/64...
Luxembourg collects unpaid taxes from recent tax amnesty
Date31 Jan 2018
CategoryVAT Compliance
Luxembourg has collected over EUR30mln (approx. $36.7mln) in unpaid taxes in 2016 as a result of a tax amnesty scheme, Finance Minister Mr Pierre Gramegna has told parliament. Reacting to...
Spain announced 4% transfer tax on P2P internet sales
Date30 Jan 2018
CategoryVAT Compliance
Spain has prolonged its ‘Impuesto de Transmisiones Partrimoniales’ (ITP) transfer tax to the sale by consumers of second-hand goods on the internet. If consumers are not VAT registered, then the...
EU Member States to work collectively to stamp out VAT fraud
Date25 Jan 2018
CategoryVAT Compliance
European Union Member States to work collectively to stamp out VAT fraud Towards the end of 2017 the European Commission released new tools intended to make the European Union’s value-added...
Update to Italian ‘Spesometro’ for 2018
Date18 Jan 2018
CategoryVAT Compliance
Update to Italian Spesometro for 2018 The reporting frequency for 2018 invoice listing (or ‘VAT Books’) submission (formerly ‘Spesometro’) has been changed by Italy, from quarterly to bi-annually. There will...
Simplification to Slovakian VAT registration
Date16 Jan 2018
CategoryVAT Compliance
From the 1st January, 2018, non-resident Slovakian businesses may side-step the responsibility to VAT register for intra-community transactions and distance sales from Slovakia. At present, foreign companies must apply for...