[turbojerry]

This seems very bad, I'm assuming this applies to all customers whether businesses or not, so here are a few potential gotchas I see-

1. You sell to an individual who is not in the country that their payment information is related to and is not delivered to that country, do you charge VAT based on the payment information alone or do you have to physically verify that they are in the country claiming the VAT?

2. Prepaid CC can have false information, how do you determine is it is true so you can charge the right VAT?

3. Fraud, if you sell something to a fraudster, do you have to find out which country the fraudster was in to determine VAT you owe after the fact?

4. What about Bitcoin transactions where no location information is known?

[rachelandrew]

Yeah the implementation in terms of how we verify that someone lives where they say they live is going to be a royal PITA.

We're already VAT registered and already trade with EU countries so we're pretty much set up to deal with this already, it's an extension to what we already do to not charge VAT to people we can verify a VAT number for (who are EU but not UK). The guidelines say we need two non-conflicting bits of information to verify the location of a person, they mention IP Address! We all know how useless that's going to be to identify in which country someone is.