[ar0]

Great idea. However, I think you need to be careful in the VAT area not to overpromise: I selected “selling from Switzerland to Switzerland” and your calculator quoted a VAT of 0%, which is of course false (selling stuff in Switzerland requires deducting 7.7% VAT).

My guess would be that you only cover VAT within the EU, but of course there are VAT regimes outside of the EU too; so “we also take care of VAT collection for you” does not seem to apply in all cases.

[chinathrow]

> selling stuff in Switzerland requires deducting 7.7% VAT

Only if you're selling more than 100k CHF per year.

[conductr]

I have no stake in this but, is there not a VATaaS API/library by now?

I see the VAT complications discussed all the time online and figured this would be rather centralized by now

[byschii]

maybe https://vatapi.com ? (actually never tested)

[donjoe]

disclaimer: developer, not tax attorney :-)

Our connected tax office figured out taxation concerning international transactions. Why and how different taxation rules apply depends on a couple of instruments and setups such as reverse tax charges, MOSS and others.

It basically burns down to fruits:

- charging the buyer with the applicable tax between fruits (company in Germany) and the buyer in country XYZ

- each buyer receiving an invoice (issued by fruits)

- the seller receiving a single credit note for all sales within that month targeting a German company (fruits)

We will have to clarify taxation as I can see from comments in this thread - thanks for your input!

[jacquesm]

VATMOSS would seem to be the way to go, note that you may not have visibility on all of the transactions of a party so you won't be able to determine when they cross the limit for VAT liability for their country.