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by vfdfv 3932 days ago
Do you know if Braintree handles EU VAT in an automatic way? I've read the article below but I'm not totally sure what to make of it:

https://www.taxamo.com/braintree-announce-partnership-taxamo...

I am definitely not interested in hand-coding a solution.

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I don't know about Braintree, but I can report that for my SaaS app (https://www.wisecashhq.com, currently priced in $ but France-based), I used Recurly (https://www.recurly.com) which handles EU VAT very nicely (including VAT changes happening in 2015).

I use them together with Stripe as my gateway, it generates proper invoices and applies the rate of the buyer's country unless a valid VAT number has been provided. They also provide a stripe-like js library so that the credit-card number doesn't go through my server.

With regard to VAT MOSS report, they do most of the checks, I only wrote a little ETL script using http://www.kiba-etl.org/ to create a break-down of the related amounts for each quarter and each country, which I then submit manually to the VAT MOSS French website.

So in my case, this is fully automated, and I'm pretty happy with this :-)

Feel free to email me if you have questions.

This is the setup (Recurly + Stripe) the article is complaining about though, it doesn't protect well against fraud.