I think James has a valid point. For example in EU, we have a MOSS for submitting quarterly VAT reports. MOSS basically allows you to submit (and pay) your reports on one place and the system forwards the reports (and VAT paid) to each EU member state. If you don't (or can't - I think there are limits who can use MOSS) use MOSS, then you have to register with each EU state tax administration and report and pay VAT separately.
But for example Norway is not part of EU and they have their own VAT system where you have to register, submit reports and pay VAT. Now with Brexit, UK is going to become a more complex matter as it is going to be excluded from the EU MOSS system. Many countries have different VAT rates. And this is just EU + Norway.
I'm not sure how this works outside of EU and many countries don't care for digital sales of non-resident companies, but many do - for example recently Turkey announced a system similar to the Norway's system.
It is manageable, but it adds some overhead. On the other hand, when using AppStore, Apple is the merchant on record and the only thing I have to do for our AppStore sales is to upload an invoice to Apple in the ITC.
This is a great idea. The main disadvantage to me is the tax remittance of various local sales/digital taxes for each user. How do you plan to deal with this?
Have you ended up implementing this?
I think James has a valid point. For example in EU, we have a MOSS for submitting quarterly VAT reports. MOSS basically allows you to submit (and pay) your reports on one place and the system forwards the reports (and VAT paid) to each EU member state. If you don't (or can't - I think there are limits who can use MOSS) use MOSS, then you have to register with each EU state tax administration and report and pay VAT separately.
But for example Norway is not part of EU and they have their own VAT system where you have to register, submit reports and pay VAT. Now with Brexit, UK is going to become a more complex matter as it is going to be excluded from the EU MOSS system. Many countries have different VAT rates. And this is just EU + Norway.
I'm not sure how this works outside of EU and many countries don't care for digital sales of non-resident companies, but many do - for example recently Turkey announced a system similar to the Norway's system.
It is manageable, but it adds some overhead. On the other hand, when using AppStore, Apple is the merchant on record and the only thing I have to do for our AppStore sales is to upload an invoice to Apple in the ITC.
This is a great idea. The main disadvantage to me is the tax remittance of various local sales/digital taxes for each user. How do you plan to deal with this?
Nice solution! I do wonder if using the facebook/snapchat/tiktok pixels will work as webkit uses ITP which blocks 3rd party cookies by default though?