As you may known, Etsy is one of the largest international internet trading platforms offering handmade items of various categories. Sales of their products, products, artworks through various trading platforms are currently popular.
What should be taken into account by sellers who have chosen to make use of the opportunities offered by the platforms in the application of VAT in the course of their economic activities? 20.02.2025. The national Revenue Service published a briefing material: “Information material application of VAT to transactions on online platforms.” This Article casts some light on it.
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Ask questionThe obligation to register for VAT purposes depends not only on the registration threshold set in Latvia for domestic transactions (EUR 50,000), but also on the type of services supplied to a VAT payer of another EU Member State, if the place of supply of these services is determined under Section 19, Paragraph One of the VAT Law (the recipient of the service is responsible for the payment of VAT), or on the type of services received, the place of which is determined under the above-mentioned Section. According to the VAT Law, VAT registration is also required if the purchase of goods by a company in the territory of the EU reaches or exceeds EUR 10,000 in the current calendar year (currently, this threshold can be used not only by inland taxpayers but also by taxpayers from another EU Member State). The registration requirement has so far prevented SMEs from “enjoying” their status. Some changes have already come into force from 1 January 2025, others will become effective on 1 July 2025. This article looks at these changes.
Businesses, especially those with cross-border operations, are not finding it easy to apply value added tax (VAT).
In the context of domestic as well as cross-border transactions, we have discussed more than once how a customer’s free transfer of equipment to a service provider affects the amount of a subsequent supply of services. In practice, there are situations where a service provider lacks some specific equipment he needs for providing services to a customer, and the customer transfers the necessary equipment to the service provider free of charge. Also, there was uncertainty as to whether such a transactional structure affects the customer’s right to deduct input VAT on the equipment.
In its recent judgment C-475/23 Voestalpine Giesserei Linz GmbH, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled on the right to deduct input VAT in such a transactional structure.
In this article we present the CJEU’s perspective on this issue.
In an earlier MindLink article we wrote about proposals for amending the value added tax (VAT) framework. The proposals mandate e-invoicing in cross-border transactions and require changes to how EU sales lists are completed. The proposals also place responsibility for collecting VAT on platforms through which transactions are made in the accommodation and transport sector, and the one-stop shop (OSS) scheme is to be expanded.
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