[gamblor956]

We're talking about 2 very different things.

It sounds like you're talking about a one-stop shop where you get to decide when you want to use it based on your own thresholds. You can certainly do that, it depends on the specific one-stop shop as to how much is manual vs done for you. Some are more technologically advanced than others.

I'm talking about the VAT thresholds at which you're required to collect VAT (and thus would consider using a VAT one-stop-shop). At the time the one-stop shops were introduced, there were no minimum thresholds.

Generally, beginning in 2019, EU members are supposed to have a EU 1000 threshold for requiring VAT compliance. But like all EU rules, this rule requires local implementation and it hasn't yet been implemented by all member states. So in some countries, you need to do at least EURO 1000 of business before needing to deal with VAT compliance...but in others, its still EURO 0.

[Mirioron]

1000 euros sounds so incredibly low that it might as well not exist. I'm actually amazed how poorly that's thought out.

[gamblor956]

There is a huge difference between 1000 euros and 0 if you're selling into a country from elsewhere.

The threshold is high enough to not impact incidental foreign sellers but low enough that it's not worth the costs of creating new sales entities to evade VAT compliance.