Question: Our company here in the U.S. is a reseller of equipment. Our customer in U.S. is purchasing product to be shipped to their Germany location. (We will also have this same situation w/ product shipping to their France, Singapore, UK, & South Africa locations.) Shipments will be cleared using consignee’s courier account number and […]
Question: A good friend / customer of mine has audio equipment samples sitting at a business partner’s storage in Spain. A couple companies / individuals were interested in buying these samples, main issue is that the business partner has no Spanish VAT#. Question is, would it be possible to sell these samples (it’s audio […]
Question: My question relates to VAT in the EU. I did not find similar question or a recent answer in the answers database, so I am posing it as follows: We are a distributor in the US. I am looking to the ship from France to Germany. Basically as a drop shipment. The […]
Question:Has anyone heard of no VAT applicable for shipments by air freight from Canada to Germany? ========================================================================
Question: When we ship a part to the UK for repair and return to us, our supplier must pay Vat on the item and then later submit for a refund. The result is tying up $10,000 for several months. Is there some special terms or language we should use so that our cash flow […]
Question: Our company will be selling to companies worldwide. Even if they do not have a physical presence in the locale the product is shipped to, would they be responsible for collecting tax required in that locale? In the US, if a customer has a resale certificate, then that exempts the seller from collecting sales […]
Question:For EU imports, how is the membership handling vat/duty payments in the EU? We are currently importing into Netherlands, Germany, UK, and Switzerland (Switzerland is not part of the EU). Our brokers are requesting payment for vat/duty upon delivery and confirmed that this is a standard practice in the EU. This is becoming a challenge […]
Would some of you provide examples of strategies and processes that you have put in place which help mitigate duty and VAT exposure in high tariff countries?
Does anyone have a listing of the different countries and what their VAT % is per country?
Can anyone recommend a good source of information regarding VAT Taxes. I’m not looking for country specific percentage rates; I’m looking for some information that can give a good overview of VAT tax and how it works. Any seminars or workshops on this topic? I’ve looked at a lot of websites and they seem to […]
Can anyone recommend a good source of information regarding VAT Taxes. I’m not looking for country specific percentage rates; I’m looking for some information that can give a good overview of VAT tax and how it works. Any seminars or workshops on this topic? I’ve looked at a lot of websites and they seem to […]
Scenario: We are the buyer of product and we are located in the U.S. Our vendor is in the UK. They will drop ship product directly to our customer in Germany. This vendor is indicating the “customer” must pay VAT before they can ship goods. In this situation, does customer mean “US Buyer” or “German […]
