René H4

I have read more into it. The regulation already existed, but Brussels is tightening the thresholds. From july fist 2021, if your sales to other EU countries in total exceeds 10000 Euro's, you have to pay VAT in those countries. Next to the issue is that the shopowner has to pay the VAT either through their local VAT system, or through an own VAT-id in EVERY country that is sold to: there is the fact that the VAT has to be charged in LOCAL VAT percentage. I am selling from the Netherlands, where we have 21% VAT and I have used that for more than 10 years now, for any sale. Now I have to set up ZONE-ing for all percentages that are carried within the EU. Who has dealt with this, and what was the solution?

Resuming from this threat to keep the original on-topic:

If I read the document well, I understand that for larger companies there will hardly be any changes per june 1st. There is a threshold per country at this moment, if your sales to that country are above that the company has to pay VAT in that specific country, even befor june 1st. This threshold is someting like 35000 Euro's at this very moment. As per june 1st, there will be a threshold of 10000 Euro's for orders that ship to all countries together. You can pay the tax at your local TAX organization, by requesting an XXX ( I read the term but I can't find it back) for each country and administer it there. This is how I read it. This would also mean the end of Intracommunautary deleveries?

Documents like this make me sweat. It's getting very complex. They are killing international trade in this way, and weren't we ( the small businisses) the ones that keep the economy alive? I hate men with suits and ties.

@BrockleyJohn This is new for me John. I suppose you have figured this out, do you have a reference of documentation? Website or something? I will look for it myself here in the local government websites too.

@LeeFoster In the language file the following line is missing: define('IMAGE_ICON_INFO', 'some text here'); Also, icons are not there, if you copy them over from your old site all displays well on the admin side. That is: FontAwsome would be nicer, and the looks is like the early Phoenix admin. Not pretty, but it's admin.

I have just put this on my 10712 test site. There's a lot of tweaking to do on the admin side. Front end looks OK. Nice AddOn for a (f#cking)-coockie message 🙂

@gritsop Please resume your discussion here:

Let's discuss EU-based shopowners issues regarding BREXIT here..... That's for EU owners selling into the UK.

Let's discuss UK-based shopowners issues regarding BREXIT here.....

I must say that the shop owner or developer that found this issue has very well dugg into the problem! Well done, and thanks @raiwa and @ecartz for developing a solution!

@datalink I sure hope for you that is of personal experience!

As a second thought: Paypal does not allow you to charge the cost to the customer, it's in their Terms and Conditions. I have almost gond ridd of Paypal by offering generally accepted alternatives, like iDeal and BankContact, for Netherlands and Belgium. Paypal is a high cost payment method, so try to get ridd of it.

Interesting! Wouldn't it be wise to add this into the core? Or strongly recommended after installation?