On 14 February 2013 the provisions of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), to be implemented under enhanced cooperation, were outlined in a proposal adopted by the European Commission.
Join the webcast for a closer look at the proposed directive and the implications for the global financial services industry.
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An ever recurring question of EU VAT is referred to the ECJ namely, whether the storage of goods is a service connected with immovable property, which should be subject to VAT where the warehouse is located (Art 47) or rather it is a regular service which should be taxed in accordance with the general rules (Art 44 of the VAT Directive). Read More »
Please join PwC’s Value Added Tax Practice for a webcast on Thursday, March 14th from 12:00 to 1:00pm ET focusing on the challenges that sellers of electronically delivered content face when selling to customers in the European Union and elsewhere.
The European Union (EU) has long required EU established businesses to account for VAT, at the rate where the business is established, on sales of electronically supplied services (ESS),Read More »
Based on the opinion of the German Federal Ministry of Finance (Bundesfinanzministerium – BMF) the simplification rule is only applicable if the supplier transports the goods himself. In case the recipient organises the transport or the goods are transported by a third party freight forwarder, the simplification cannot be used. Germany has a simplification scheme in place which allows suppliers to treat the cross-border transaction as an intra-community transfer of own goods. In such a case, the supplier reports an intra-community supply in the EU member state of dispatch and an intra-community acquisition in Germany. The delivery to the recipient of the goods in Germany is treated as a domestic supply of goods and charged with local German VAT.
This simplification rule is very useful as the supplier has only a limited administrative effort. Furthermore, the VAT numbers of the recipients neither need to be requested nor verified on regular basis (which might be a huge administrative burden).
The new limitation of the use of the simplification will not generate more revenue for the tax authority but it will create lots of administrative work which could be easily avoided.
A new minefield is created around fixed establishments for VAT purposes, even if there is an extensive case-law of the European Court of Justice to determine whether such an establishment exist or not. The main elements of this legal analysis were also embedded into the EU VAT Regulations, however, some of the member states tend to interpret now these rules more widely as before. Read More »
The basic purpose of EORI (Economic Operator Registration and Identification in the EU) is to establish a system whereby every trader who interacts with Customs Authorities in any Member State of the EU is allocated an unique reference number. This reference number is valid throughout the EU and serves as a common reference number for the trader’s interaction with the Customs Authorities of any Member State. Read More »
New EU Invoicing Directive will come into effect in all EU member states on 1 January 2013 at the very latest (Germany, for example, has already implemented the new rules and allows among other to submit e-invoices in PDF format). Under the new Directive the authenticity, integrity and legibility of all invoices (paper and electronic) still need to Read More »
PwC Switzerland ITX
Michaela Merz 