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For questions related to Value Added Taxes (VAT). For specific questions, consider adding a country- or region-specific tag, e.g. European Union.

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When moving EU -> EU, where to pay VAT on moving services?

See Section 3.2 here. You appear to be correct, assuming you're not a business customer. The place of supply of freight transport and related services supplied to customers who are not ‘in busi …
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On what amount am I supposed to pay VAT for sales?

VAT means what it says — Value Added Tax. It’s a tax on the value that your business adds. You deduct all the VAT you have paid to your suppliers from your own VAT bill. … However, VAT (and many other taxes, such as business rates) are not included in the claim that Amazon only pays £15 million in tax. …
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Do I need to pay tax if I use my own bank account for collected money for a booked hotel in ...

(You might have to register for VAT if the total amount was over the threshold, but in this case it’s only about 5% of the threshold.) …
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Calculate order discount correctly when Tax is set per unit?

If you’re discounting the total price, then you’re discounting the tax by the same amount. The tax is calculated on what you actually charge, not on the headline price before discounts are applied. Ju …
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How to reclaim the value-added tax when buying something on eBay?

You can't reclaim the German VAT (unless you travel to Germany to collect the item), but the German vendor should not be charging VAT on sales of goods that will be exported from the EU. … You need to get the vendor to quote and charge you a VAT-free price. …
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Should I charge VAT on a customer who is VAT registered in a EU country?

If your customer is VAT-registered in their home country, provides their full VAT number, and you do some paperwork, then it's zero-rated for VAT. … If your customer is not VAT-registered, then you need to charge VAT the same as if they were in the UK. See here for full details. …
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How to deal with VAT when traveling from US to Europe?

VAT will already be included in all the prices that you see, and you can generally forget about it. … It's illegal to quote prices to consumers without including the VAT, so the price you see is the price you pay. …
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Quotes for work by a tradesman in the UK: rules for VAT?

If a price is quoted with no mention of VAT, then it includes VAT. So your tradesman can't then add VAT on top. …
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