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Originally Posted by JSWolf
The problem as I see it is the EU is trying to force it's will on sites & people who are not in the EU. The EU is overreaching it's authority and that needs to stop.
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This law is only applicable to people selling from EU member states to other EU member states, you won't be affected.
Selling from / to outside the EU will not be changed (as this is covered by international trade laws so you should pay the import/customs/purchase tax of the country you are in anyway), it's essentially closing a tax loophole for digital goods sold within the EU to non VAT registered individuals (Business to Business sales are likewise not affected).
It's designed to make Google, Amazon et all to actually pay VAT to the government of the country they are selling to, UK individuals/small businesses earning less than the UK threshold (£81,000) will have to register with VAT MOSS if they are selling withing the EU (they won't if they are only selling to the UK) instead of having to track the individual VAT thresholds of individual countries they are selling to (e.g Spain doesn't have one so currently if you sell anything to Spain you need to be VAT registered in Spain, Sweden is about £30,000 - distance selling in the EU is currently very complicated if you actually follow all the tax rules).
If you ship physical goods then nothing has changed.