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mootothemax | karma 9380 | avg karma 5.31 · 2013-01-21 09:13:53

All B2B sales to EC customers have no vat and are ‘outside the scope of UK vat’.

Interesting. I was under the impression that EC B2B sales were zero-rated only for companies that are VAT-registered. This is why we grab and validate a VAT number for each EC company that we issue an invoice for.

That said, God only knows how this might tie into the living hell which is Polish bureaucracy.

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Strom | karma 4190 | avg karma 3.86 · 2013-01-21 15:59:54+00:00

I'm quite sure it's exactly as you mentioned - the B2B payer needs to be VAT-registered. That's how it works in Estonia, anyway.

theallan | karma 318 | avg karma 2.92 · 2013-01-21 18:03:35+00:00

You need to be able to prove that the purchase is B2B rather than B2C, and the easiest way of doing that is to get the buyer's VAT number. You could still do B2B without a VAT number, but you need to be able to prove that the buyer was a business if the tax man asks about it.

mootothemax | karma 9380 | avg karma 5.31 · 2013-01-21 18:28:49+00:00

Ah, ok, thanks, that makes sense :)

(well - "sense" is relative when it comes to all these VAT rules...)

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