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Originally Posted by ingmar
They do? Can you be more specific? I know that if a seller in another EU country has a total value of sales to a particular EU country exceeding a certain limit (either EUR 35 000 or EUR 100 000, it depends) they must charge consumers in that country their (buyer's) VAT, but for sales from outside the EU? I don't really see how they could force outside states to do that.
Theoretically the buyer must then pay VAT at the point of import, of course.
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I don't know about outside the EU, but in the EU for digital goods the dollar value threshold for collecting VAT for various countries is zero, unlike physical goods, and has had an affect on small ebook sellers...
http://ebooksdirect.dianeduane.com/p...-digital-sales
...whether this in some way applies to sellers outside the EU and is what murg is referring to I don't know.