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Bahamas enforces VAT on foreign digital services

The Bahamas’ Department of Inland Revenue is seeking to enforce the existing VAT obligations for non-resident sellers of digital services to consumers. Bahamas introduced Value Added Tax on 1 January ...Continued

US Colorado clarifies marketplace sales tax liabilities

The US state of Colorado has clarified the marketplace liabilities to collect state sales tax where they are facilitating sales of their third-party sellers. The new rules are applicable from October ...Continued

Digital Services Tax DST Global Tracker

Digital Services Taxes (DST) are turnover taxes on gross revenues from the sales from a range of digital services or goods. They are levied by governments on both resident and foreign suppliers (selli...Continued

Portugal delays VAT invoice software on foreign taxpayers to July 2021

Portugal has again postponed the requirement for non-resident VAT registered businesses to produce VAT invoices on approved software packages. The new deadline is July 2021. It had previously been 1 J...Continued

UK Brexit Northern Ireland EU XI and XU VAT number prefix

The EU will grant UK Northern Ireland (NI) businesses an EU VAT identification number to enable them to report goods transactions after 31 December 2020. This is the end of the Brexit transition perio...Continued

France no Fiscal Representation for UK businesses after Brexit

France’s La Direction générale des Finances publiques, DGFiP, has confirmed that UK businesses will not need a Fiscal Representative for the French VAT registrations. The UK leaves the EU VAT regime a...Continued

Iceland COVID-19 VAT measures

Iceland has agreed Value Added Tax and other tax benefits for businesses during the coronavirus epidemic....Continued

EU 2021 ecommerce VAT package – doubts ahead

The EU’s e-commerce package will simplify pan-EU VAT compliance for online sellers and make marketplaces liable for the VAT on many of their third-party merchants. It will launch on 1 July 2021. Howev...Continued

UK warns Brexit import VAT & customs declarations

The UK is warning today businesses to prepare for customs declarations and possible tariff calculations on imports from the EU. These come at the end of the Brexit transition period on 1 January 2021....Continued

Suriname VAT implementation

The South American state of Republic of Suriname is planning to introduce Value Added Tax. The new Suriname VAT will replace the existing Turnover Tax. ...Continued