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ady
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Re: New EU VAT regulations
« Reply #5 on: Jun 11th, 2015, 09:28am » |
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If you supply your digital downloads through a third party site then you are exempt from this vat mess the government has created
The third party is responsible for all the vat admin
Might mean you have to charge a bit more for overseas customers but easier than snail mail
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Sending digital content as an email attachment is not regarded as a digital sale for vat purposes
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rtr2
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Re: New EU VAT regulations
« Reply #6 on: Jun 11th, 2015, 09:59am » |
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on Jun 11th, 2015, 09:28am, ady wrote:| If you supply your digital downloads through a third party site then you are exempt from this vat mess the government has created |
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That is not correct. There is no compulsion on third-party software distributors to handle the admin, and many (probably most) don't. That is certainly true of the one I use, PayLoadz.
There may be some third-party distributors who are able to handle the VAT admin for a fee, but there's no way that would be economic for me (the number of copies I sell into Europe is tiny, as my recent league table shows).
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Although the rules are imprecise, my understanding is that only automated digital downloads are affected by the current regulations. I can still deliver the product as a file (e.g. attached to an email) so long as the order is processed entirely manually.
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dfeugey
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Re: New EU VAT regulations
« Reply #8 on: Jun 12th, 2015, 08:15am » |
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on Jun 11th, 2015, 09:59am, g4bau wrote:| That is not correct. There is no compulsion on third-party software distributors to handle the admin, and many (probably most) don't. |
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Distributor is not the right term. Software editor is. Who is the software editor? With PayPal, it's you, since PayPal is basically a bank. With Kagi or Share-It, it's them. They distribute the software and manage all the 'invoicing'.
Basically, if you don't manage the 'selling part' of the business, then the distributor is the editor, and you only the author. That's really simple  .
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