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by ajeet_dhaliwal 3274 days ago
This is exactly the reason we don't allow individuals in Europe to sign up at Tesults. Companies with a VAT number are accepted.

I'm honestly surprised if this is the reason Google does it too, we made the decision because it was not worth the hassle but we are hardly Google sized! I thought they'd be able to handle this just fine.
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simon_acca 3274 days ago
This[0] might be of interest for you then, they basically handle the European localized-VAT compliance for you and it should be as simple to integrate as, say, stripe payments. It looks promising, I plan to use it, but have no experience with it yet.

As for the idea that VAT MOSS is what keeps google cloud from entering the private market, I agree that it's improbable given Google's size, they have figured it out already for other products after all.

0: https://quaderno.io/

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jon-wood 3273 days ago
I could believe that for business focused products like Google Cloud its not worth the admin overhead for the revenue they'll get from individuals hacking on side projects.
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