The HMRC Making Tax Digital Policy team have provided clarification on the use of Box 8 on the UK VAT return after 1st January 2021. Until now it has been used for sales of goods to customers in other EU member states and from 1st January 2021 it will be used for the movement of...
Bulgaria proposes to reduce the rate on e-books and catering services from 20% to 9%. If adopted, this measure should enter into force from 1stJuly 2020.
Due to the current health crisis (covid-19), Germany is reducing the standard VAT rate from 19% to 16% and the reduced VAT rate from 7% to 5% from 1st July 2020 until 31st December 2020.
The Spanish tax authorities have confirmed that the VAT rate on digital publications (e-books) has been reduced from 21% to 4%. This measure was implemented on April 23rd 2020 and follows the proposal by the EU Council to reduce VAT rates for electronic publications to match their printed equivalents.
Following the health crisis (covid-19), several fiscal measures have been announced. In particular, Romania plans to issue VAT refunds without preliminary audit. Tax audits may subsequently be carried out based on a risk analysis.
Luxembourg is the first EU Member State to confirm that it will be able to open its “One-Stop-Shop” VAT registration portal for e-commerce from 1st October 2020. The One-Stop-Shop ( OSS) is an extension of the Mini One-Stop-Shop introduced in 2015 by the 1st e-commerce VAT package. The one-stop shop is one of the reforms...
In order to reduce the impact of the health crisis (covid-19), the Hungarian government has announced that VAT refunds will be made: within 30 days for small and medium-sized companies (normally 75 days) provided they are not considered to be at risk, within 20 days for taxpayers considered reliable.
In order to mitigate the effects of the health crisis (covid-19), the Estonian Parliament has adopted a bill providing a 9% VAT rate from 1st May 2020 for books and educational literature and certain press publications. However, the following are excluded from this measure and still taxed at the standard rate of 20%: publications with...
To improve liquidity for small and medium-sized businesses, the Danish government has announced that VAT payments made in March 2020 for transactions in the last quarter or half of 2019 could be refunded in the form of an interest-free loan.
Following the health crisis (covid-19), the Cypriot authorities have announced a plan to postpone the VAT payment deadline for the periods ending February 29th, March 31st and April 30th 2020 to 10th November 2020, subject to meeting certain conditions set out below: the taxable person must submit the return within the legal deadline, the amount...
To mitigate the effects of the health crisis (covid-19), the National Revenue Agency of Bulgaria (NRA) has announced VAT and customs duties exemptions for the import of certain medical products needed to combat the covid-19 pandemic
Following the health crisis (Covid-19), the Austrian Ministry of Finance has announced that Intra-Community supply and acquisitions of respiratory masks will be subject to a 0% VAT rate for the period from 13th April to 1st August 2020.
Following the proposal of the EU Council to authorise Member States to reduce the VAT rate on electronic publications to bring it in line with the rate its print equivalents, the UK had taken the decision to reduce the rate from 20% to 0% from1st December 2020. However, due to the current health crisis (covid-19),...
On February 3rd 2020, the Portuguese Tax Authorities issued circular No. 30218/2020 providing clarification on what proof is required for shipping or transporting goods when applying for VAT exemptions on Intra-Community transactions of goods. It also specifies what documentation must be kept either by taxable persons transferring goods under the simplified consignment stock scheme or...
