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Yes, that would be nice or maybe on shop-level.

Best regards
Kurt Moskjaer Andersen

How can language (and not country) be controlling if VAT is needed on a shipping method. Can you explain the use case? 

When selling b2b you normally do not charge vat (reverse vat charge) - with some exceptions.

When selling b2c you should collect vat in the country of origin (DK for Danish companies) unless you fall under the rules of Distance selling (selling more than €100K in a EU country) - then you need to collect and report VAT in that country.

BR Nicolai

I have 3 shops, each with only one delivery country and one language. 

Of course you are right, it is the language that should control the VAT.

My setup is B2C shops with multiple shipping methods:

.dk

• Countries: 
  • DK
• Languages:
  • da-DK
• Shipping methods:
  • GLS buisness(25% VAT) 
  • GLS shop(25% VAT) 
  • GLS home(25% VAT) 

.no

• Countries: 
  • NO
• Languages: 
  • no-NB
• Shipping methods:
  • GLS buisness(25% VAT) 
  • Postnord shop(0% VAT)
  • Postnord home(0% VAT)  

.se

• Countries: 
  • SE
• Languages: 
  • sv-SE
• Shipping methods:
  • GLS buisness(25% VAT) 
  • Postnord shop(0% VAT)
  • Postnord home(0% VAT)  

Makes sense? Possible?

Any help would much appreciated, thanks!

Anyone? 

Hi Jesper

Take a look at this thread: https://doc.dynamicweb.com/forum/feature-requests?ThreadID=69793

My last reply is my exact same question to you.

I do not understand why you need this...

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You need vat groups on delivery methods to do this. VAT groups can have seperate vat percent per country.

But why do you need this? In EU, this can only be needed in rare cases - if i.e. a danish company sells a product that gets shipped from another eu country (i.e. germany) to a third eu country (i.e. france) - (then it probably needs to be handled in a different way)

In any other scenario, as far as I understand it, you need to collect VAT on everything or nothing (reverse vat charge in b2b)....

So if a Danish ecommerce site sends products to other EU countries (or countries part of the EFTA/EØS) they will have to charge either Danish VAT (if they sell for less than €100K) or the VAT percentage of the country they are shipping to.

Before looking into this I need to understand if there is some taxation regimes I do not have fully covered - then we have to look into that legislation.

Thanks for clarifying.

Thank you for getting back on this.

My client has this solution with Postnord:
https://www.postnord.dk/kundeservice/kundeservice-erhverv/fa-en-kundeaftale

On that page you can find this price list:
https://www.postnord.dk/siteassets/pdf/priser/aftaler/2020/bp-pakker-2020.pdf

According to that list there is no VAT on MyPack parcels if the weight is below 20 kg. 

I hope that explains why i need this.

All the best, Jesper

Hi Jesper

Yes, that is how the VAT is handled between Postnord and you customer (the company) - this is because Postnord does not have to charge VAT for these services because they are obliged to have these services under the "Postloven". But when your customer buy and re-sell freight to their end customer, they have to add VAT on the parcel. Until 1/1-2017 you could in some scenarios use the old "uligningsordning" to re-charge VAT exempted packages without VAT to end customers. But not anymore.

I am pretty sure you buy online your self. Find any one receipt where the price of the package is VAT exempted...

We have a lot of ecommerce customers (sigh) - I am pretty sure your customer is not any different than most other ecommerce sites.

Also be aware that Norway is not a EU memberstate and there was a change in VAT rules on foreign ecommerce in Norway as of April 1st. This means that ecommerce sites selling in Norway has to charge norwegian VAT (25% on most goods, including freight, 15% on food) and to be registered for VAT in Norway (A system called VOEC - Vat-on-E-Commerce ).

I might be wrong... But I am pretty sure I am not :-)

Ok, you sound more and more convincing.

And I'm starting to get a little confused about all these rules and requests.

I will triple check with my client, that this is what he wants.

Thanks again for pointing this out to me.