The Telegraph (and other papers) have been triumphantly proclaiming victory in the VATMOSS fight. The EU has conceded that the legislation needs revising to include a threshold. Hurrah! Well, as the saying goes, up to a point… Securing this sort of solid, on-the-record commitment by both the European Commission and […]
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Over the past nine months, the EU VAT Action team has made the case for a VAT threshold cross-border digital sales indisputable. The European Commission and the UK Government has publicly agreed, and revised legislation will be enacted. However, even with the UK Government’s active involvement no EU threshold will […]
Is A Unilateral UK VATMOSS Threshold A Realistic Proposal? We ...

If we’re to find a way forward to save the European digital economy – and every passing month sees yet more damage done – EU countries need to realise they can actually profit by taking small businesses out of cross-border digital VAT. On the other hand, it’s equally important to […]
The VATMOSS Threshold Paradox, Reasons Why Countries Are Wary & ...

Thank you all so much for your support last week when I was at the Fiscalis Summit. Here is a summary of how it went and what our next steps are: In summary: there was widespread agreement that the implementation of the EU Digital VAT rules has hit the smallest […]
What Happened At The EU VAT Fiscalis Summit? #EUVAT #Fiscalis
Clare Josa, Co-Founder of the EU VAT Action Team, is attending the EU Fiscalis event in Dublin over the next three days to represent you. This event represents a pivotal point in the campaign so far, where the campaign and all of your views will be heard by all 28 EU Finance […]
EU VAT Action team at 2015 Dublin Fiscalis Summit

One of the biggest barriers we have come up against on EU VAT over the past six months is everyone’s hope that a ‘simple tech solution’ will fix everything – and make this scary VATMESS go away. We have had politicians use it as an excuse for not asking the […]
Why The Hope For An EU VAT ‘Simple Tech Solution’ ...
It sounds like an awful lot of money, doesn’t it? €100,000 or £74,000 at current exchange rates. Surely that’s a high enough turnover threshold to mitigate the damaging impact of EU digital VAT? Let’s look at the detail. Bear in mind that €100,000 isn’t a single person’s salary. It’s a […]
How much help would a €100,000 EU digital VAT threshold ...
I was the EU VAT Action Team’s representative at the most recent HMRC Digital VAT Working Group this week. As far as this campaign is concerned, the single most important thing to come out of that meeting is that everyone needs to take their problems direct to HMRC. If you’re […]
Why it’s more important than ever to take your VATMOSS ...

Our conversations with many officials and elected representatives about the EU’s new digital VAT regulations have one thing in common. As soon as we mention the word ‘threshold’, they react as if they’ve been stuck with a hatpin. Then they hastily tell us all the aspects of EU VAT thresholds […]