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by BrentOzar 3950 days ago
> How does it handle VAT MOSS on digital goods in the EU?

They don't. See: https://filesprout.com/support/what-do-i-need.html

"If after talking with a professional you are responsible for paying sales tax for your items, you'll have to add this into your pricing manually."
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Coding_Cat 3950 days ago
Pretty sure that won't work. You need to add the VAT in the buyer's region, not the seller's. This is of course a nightmare to manage. See: http://euvataction.org/key-facts/#key_regulations

If that link is to be believed, you also need to submit your taxes on a quarterly basis, not a yearly basis as filesprout mentions as well as keep track of and store your customers data for 10 years.

Also, on your link they say: >Do you take a % of my sales? No way jose :) That's your money.

Whereas the main page says: >No contracts or monthly fees, leave at anytime. We take 5% you keep 95%. Fair enough?

Which too me qualifies as taking a % of sales, 5 to be precise.

And my final complaint: grey text on a white background...

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dave_sullivan 3950 days ago
Yeah, actually, if you're going to be a third party selling user generated content directly (and paying those users) over the internet, what are your responsibilities as the distributor? Can you really just say "Ask your accountant, not our problem..."? Seems like that's the best one can do as a startup though. Incorporate elsewhere?
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Coding_Cat 3950 days ago
> Incorporate elsewhere?

Doesn't matter, to a degree, the rules apply to anyone selling to Europeans regardless of where they are based. How and if non-compliance will be prosecuted is a more complicated matter.

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dave_sullivan 3950 days ago
>> How and if non-compliance will be prosecuted is a more complicated matter.

Indeed. As far as I can tell, it's only been tested in a limited sense when there are relatively clear violations, such as drug markets, blatant piracy, or gambling. But extend that a bit further, and you get into the sort of murky territory where you're forced to blacklist entire countries because they have crazy people running them.

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calgoo 3950 days ago
IF someone provides the service with the VAT support i think it could actually work quite well for a lot of small vendors.
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bizifyme 3950 days ago
We also provide the service to help you with the EU VAT (and Norwegian VAT) and we also provides payment by SMS (mobile phone) for a lot of countries and a lot more.

https://www.bizify.me

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lukeholder 3950 days ago
Gumroad is: http://blog.gumroad.com/post/110080508463/vat
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adzicg 3949 days ago
leanpub does it for books
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