Originally posted by sal
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Some complied with this. Many probably ignored it. The bigger companies - Apple, Amazon etc. - worked around it completely by setting up a subsidiary in an EU country with low VAT (LU) and selling from there, thus avoiding the rule and were able to charge LU VAT.
The new changes mean that all businesses selling to EU customers must now charge local VAT even if they are based in another EU country, thus nullifying this tactic.
For B2B stuff though, nothing has changed. The place of supply was already where the customer belonged and the customer would account for the VAT locally (by paying acquisition tax on import of goods, or using the reverse charge for services).
Hence my confusion about OP.
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