Never dealt with EU sales before(lucky me?) and reading the Eigth and Thirteenth directives on HMRC. Here we go! So if a company is registered for UK VAT (or even if not) and their sales of goods but not services to another EU country exceeds that countries limit then they pay VAT in that country at their rate. The sale goes on VAT form in UK as sale to other EU country and no VAT paid in UK? Then the eight directive comes into force to claim back the VAT paid in the EU country sold to. Right or wrong? Sorry if that sounds rambling I have only ever done UK sales/purchases bit of a minefield the more you study it VAT! Tony Also, say I provided a service, say Book-Keeping to a EU country and I am not VAT registered in the UK and lets say the cost of sale is £25K (OK its just what if..) then my total sales in UK including the £25K then amounted to £69K would I need to register for UK VAT or is the £25K sale outside the scope of UK Vat being an exported service. Sweat ,going for coffee! Regards Tony
Just read that back after my coffee! First Paragraph-If I am VAT reg should I extract the output UK VAT for sale of goods first before entering my Sale of goods figure to other EU states in Box 8 of UK VAT form and then include the Output tax extracted in my VAT to reclaim box?
