Suppling IT services to an EU based country from 1/1/21

[BlasterBates]

note 8h)

after-sales service: installers, repair and maintenance personnel.......... essential to a seller's contractual obligation, supplying services...........pursuant to a service contract..... including computer software...


I paraphrase that a bit for brevity, but it reads to a layman like me, that you can do work on computer software, or computers, that have been sold to the EU party.
Up to 90 days, without a visa.

that to me covers most of what we do as contractors.... (bum on seat permietractors clearly not included in that as they work for the client). It would mean that you have to sell a product rather than the service though.


I mean it's still tulip compared to what we had before.


On a different note. All my work abroad, outside the EU, has always been for 'meetings'. The work was always done 'remotely'. Honest guv. That has been fine for USA (under an ESTA), Japan (coughed up loads of yen at customs for the switch and firewall in the suitcase), China (with a non-work VISA), Norway (customs seized the server in the suitcase), South Korea, and Hong Kong.

I used to work for an international engineering company and we went all over the world on tourist visas.

[silverlight1]

The fact that Indian companies (and others) have been happily supplying IT Services and replacing contractors to the UK (whilst it was in the EU) for decades means that in my view the OP has nothing to worry himself about supplying IT Services to an Italian company post Brexit

[Stevie Wonder Boy]

I think that the relevant question would be how do you invoice in relation to VAT?
Any opinions on that?

Not an expert, but I did give the agreement a read. It looks to me if the VAT arrangements will be the same in terms of reverse charging VAT on EU invoices.

[Lance]

The fact that Indian companies (and others) have been happily supplying IT Services and replacing contractors to the UK (whilst it was in the EU) for decades means that in my view the OP has nothing to worry himself about supplying IT Services to an Italian company post Brexit

What a ridiculous statement.

Comparing multi-billion dollar organisations with global reach to a PSC is just plain daft.

And even then you compound it by saying there’s nothing to worry about but provide no concrete suggestions on how exactly this can work. Just plain guesswork based on a totally flawed understanding.

[m0n1k3r]

The fact that Indian companies (and others) have been happily supplying IT Services and replacing contractors to the UK (whilst it was in the EU) for decades means that in my view the OP has nothing to worry himself about supplying IT Services to an Italian company post Brexit

Then you don't understand how Indian companies does it. Those mechanisms are generally not available to one-man PSCs.