Thanks. Your reply definitely helps.
On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 11:45 AM, Jan Thomä <[email protected]> wrote: > Guys, it's really very simple. MLO has contracted a payment provider which > handles all their payment for them (Digital River, IIRC). The payment > provider takes care of collecting and paying sales tax for MLO. If you sell > to a EU citizen you need to collect VAT/GST according to the country where > that citizen lives in (e.g. in Germany it's 19%, in Denmark it's 25%, > etc.). So the payment provider is a registered EU business and as such > collects the tax and pays it to the country where the EU citizen is living. > I would assume that this works in a similar fashion for non-EU countries > like India. This is how things are usually handled with end customers. If > you sell to a business, you can apply the reverse charge procedure where > you issue an invoice without VAT/GST and you need to collect the Tax-ID of > the business you are selling to. Then you print "reverse charge" on the > invoice and that business (as identified by the Tax-ID) is responsible > itself for paying the VAT/GST to the country they are registered in. In > many countries businesses themselves can deduct this VAT/GST from their own > tax so they effectively don't have to pay VAT/GST. > > So if you're a business enter your Tax-ID in the Digital River form (they > ask for this IIRC) and you will pay no VAT/GST and then handle the taxation > side on your end in your country. If you're not a business you will have to > pay VAT/GST everything else would very likely be tax evasion which can get > you in various amounts of trouble depending on the country you live in. > > I agree that it's unfortunate that the price listed on their home page is > without tax, but since the effective price depends on the country you live > in and your status as being or not being a business (plus any country > specific taxation rules) they cannot reasonably print a final price to you > until you are into the ordering process and they have all the information > they need to come up with the effective price. This is just a side product > of how taxation works and IMHO not a bait & switch tactic. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MyLifeOrganized" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized > <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/2cc9d79ddc0ac35b45a5ff479f76ae8a3150f171?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fmylifeorganized&userId=79007&signature=cca1fb2ea022ff06> > . > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/mylifeorganized/82d56642-7a0a-4261-a104-5f461eb912b1%40googlegroups. > com > <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/a236413c8c9bf2e51c27b107aa7a4484164b7ea4?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Fmsgid%2Fmylifeorganized%2F82d56642-7a0a-4261-a104-5f461eb912b1%2540googlegroups.com%3Futm_medium%3Demail%26utm_source%3Dfooter&userId=79007&signature=57b90e7030bae347> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://mailtrack.io/trace/link/050ca9a3929e620a9c0d0775d6275cfa2b7d7936?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fd%2Foptout&userId=79007&signature=b1ae64fd843e5b37> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MyLifeOrganized" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/mylifeorganized. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mylifeorganized/CAD8SW3-_gjfJ-1Qqpj7ErA5m9L2pCjyKAHWw4fPJCVZnNvzzog%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
