With the new German Tax rules being implemented it is going to be very difficult to dropship to Germany.
False details wont stand up to their scrutiny, its proving a nightmare for legit businesses to get sorted.
I think this new VAT requirement is meant for the entire EU and not just Germany. eBay in their e-mail told me that they are required by law to check every VAT document they get thoroughly.
I think the finance ministry of Germany would have had implemented some kind of mechanism that will enable eBay to check the legitimacy of uploaded VAT documents before they make that a law for e-marketplaces. Think about it, all they have to do is give eBay/Amazon a partial access to their database so that the VAT number along with the attached name to it could get double-checked instantly.
If the above mechanism or something similar to it turned out to be just a theory of mine, I think a lot of Asia-based sellers will forge VAT documents to avoid paying VAT. The only legit way I see for VAT to be effectively collected is by forcing eBay/Amazon to collect VAT from end-prices and wire-transfer that collected amount themselves to the finance authority of the respected country.
Agreed, but the Germans are rightly saying suspension first until Foreign sellers are correctly registered whereas other countries seem to be giving sellers an opportunity to get their house in order. What will happen is Chinese sellers will simply burn through a never ending supply of accounts in, say, UK but wont get away with it in Germany.
Please elaborate a little bit. Why do you think they will get away with UK accounts, but not with German ones? Doesn't the HMRC apply the same measures in someway? I mean, could a forged VAT document do the trick with eBay.co.uk?!!!
i cant tell you, i have a list of ebay sellers from China and other dropshippers,
they are back after couple of hourse after the deadline the 28.02.2019
some of them got the VAT fixed even before the deadline,
and dont push me to believe that a chinesse seller has a real German VAT.
i cant tell you, i have a list of ebay sellers from China and other dropshippers,
they are back after couple of hourse after the deadline the 28.02.2019
some of them got the VAT fixed even before the deadline,
and dont push me to believe that a chinesse seller has a real German VAT.
Lol, you never know, these ppl make tons of money by dropshipping cause they're the actual suppliers and having a German VAT number, I'm not suprised.
talk about EU requirements,Paypal has t o comply as well,the last I heard if you have a Paypal account and have collected $600? since inception,you need to show them some documents-ID,driver license etc.
so how can a stealth account comply?
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