Hi Robert, Re: VAT rules in the EC To my understanding the general rule (in any EC country) is that you have to include the VAT on your invoice to any customer, disregard whether they are consumers of business customers. This general rule applies to both domestic and foreign customers.
With regards to business customers the exception is that they can deduct the stated (and paid) VAT from their charged (and received) VAT on their VAT return to the tax authorithy. This applies to both VAT paid on domestic purchases as on foreign purchases. Due to tax agreements between countries this has been simplified to charging foreign customers with a VAT charge of 0%. But, and this is a strong but, only when the foreign customer has provided a)TAX id, and verification has been established of its b) correctness and being c) associated to the (legal entity of) customer. The burden of this verification is on the seller. Only after positive verification (of b and c mentioned before) the seller is allowed to state a VAT charge of 0%. Re VAT charging and OFBiz. First of all, there is a specific page in the OFBiz documentation regarding VAT, see https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OFBIZ/VAT This document was last updated on April 24, 2012. So it could prove not in sync with situation today. Plus, recently I have seen some modifications been done to VAT calculation and charging functionality. Paul (Foxworthy) was in control of implementing the modifications I saw. Please check with dev mailing list archive and/of Paul. Secondly, in order to do proper VAT calculation and charging (both domestic and abroad) all parameters need to be set correctly. Among others that means: - Country Code must be registered on the appropriate contact mechanism for each party. - In Accounting (menu item Tax Authority) you can associate the foreign customer to the tax authority of that country, and with that association you can set the 'Exempt' flag for that customer if you have a positive verification. See https://demo-trunk.ofbiz.apache.org:8443/accounting/control/ListTaxAuthorityParties?taxAuthPartyId=CA_BOE&taxAuthGeoId=CA If you have done so, OFBiz should calculate the proper VAT charge (being 0%) applicable for that country-customer combination. With kind regards, Pierre Smits Pierre Smits On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Robert G. <g...@mercon24.de> wrote: > HEy guys, > > I found a lot of mailings about Vat, but I could not get it clear for me, > so > I have to ask here again. > > We have a german online store, where we sell items with 19% vat included in > the product price. That works fine actualy. > > Now I want to sell items to the outland of Europe, where we have to sell > the > items without tax (0% Vat) for every buyer. > > We also want to sell to European customer as B2B. Most of the B2B Customer > in Europe own a VAT Identity with that they can buy taxfree (0% Vat) within > europe, so we have also to deduct the Vat from the selling price. > > Now I am not sure How I can handle that within the ofbiz engine. > > The countries outside of the EU, I can track with the GEO I think, but the > European countries (except my own) I have to track by geo and also by a > valid VAT ID. The Vat Id the customer should insert within his registering > process. After that he can buy without Tax. > > What do you think? Do anyone has sth like a how to, or a step by step > explanation? > > Thaaanks :) > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/German-stor-with-vat-selling-to-europe-and-other-countries-without-Vat-tp4642750.html > Sent from the OFBiz - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >
