Originally posted by Greenjack
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There are lots of "solutions" out there that this might benefit from. Depends on your attitude to risk etc. Suggest you look at the BN66 thread for the sort of issue that can happen. If you're comfortable with the risk then fine.
Your individual status may give you more opportunities to be creative and possibly a little safe, but this depends on where you are domiciled, where you are resident, where your are ordinarily resident. Unlikely to apply from your description in your original post though.
If you do a search you'll find loads of info on this question. Certainly there are solutions that can work, generally depending upon your circumstance. Most of them simply seem to rely on them not coming to the attention of the authorities though.
You should also consider you tax and VAT position WRT Germany. It is probably irrelevant given your very brief description, but it might not be. Be especially careful with the place of supply rules for VAT. It is possible (though unlikely) that you are in fact providing domestic services in Germany from a VAT point of view. This depends upon a large number of factors. You can find the details on HMRC website. Or links to it have been posted in this forum numerous times. Intra EC VAT can be a nightmare, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that the UK client should be self accounting for input vat on the services (again unlikely though).
Edit: If you are on the UK FRS you also need to be very careful, unless the supplies are "out of the scope" of UK vat (and they could be either depending upon the circumstances) then you will still need to pay over the FRS percentage because they are part of turnover. If you are not actually billing anybody for this VAT that is not helpful.
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