U.S. E-Commerce Sites To Collect EU VAT

A concerned US-based e-commerce company with inter writes "While we have all been fighting the Internet sales tax battle here in the U.S., the European Union of 15 countries has recently required that all U.S. companies with web sales to EU citizens start collecting the value-added tax on July 1, 2003. The Washington Post has a good article about this. It seems Ebay, AOL, and others caved in on this without much complaint. Can U.S. Internet taxation be far behind if we have to start collecting and reporting 15 different VAT taxes? And sorry Mr. or Ms. EU Citizen, your website subscription now costs 15% to 25% more, starting July 1. Hope you like this added value."

Comments

taxes

[BoxedFlame]

I am glad to pay my tax, because I live in the EU, more specifically Sweden, and here the tax is used for reasonable stuff, unlike the US.

Re:taxes

[TheDredd]

See it like this, the US takes a dump, and asks the EU to wipe there ass! Wy do we europeans always have to do the dirty work?

this is how i will deal with this

[trinity93]

plain and simple. I will find a distributer in the eu. They buy my products for resale, therefor they wont have to pay the tax, therefor i dont have to charge it. Any one from the eu that wants to buy my products will get sent to the distibutor. If you want to lie and say your are a distibutor or you dont live in the eu thats not my problem. regardless im not changeing my biz to acomidate some other goverments rules. i dont have a company in the eu. i am not bound by their laws. If they think other wise they need to remeber wars that have killed thousands of people have been started over more petty shit than this.

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!

If the british are smart thay will jump ship. there lives depend on it.

Re:I agree

[HBI]

I'm a US citizen. I hate most Europeans. I think the Swedes in general are dead wrong about just about everything. Let's get that out front.

However, Swedes are unusually generous about adopting kids from third world locales. I know personally of several cases, and I know one person very well who was adopted out of Sri Lanka by a kind Swedish family. Definitely not your typical Nordic kid.

It's unfair to tar them with being Nazis like you are, based on race. While Sweden is a monoracial society by and large, the people there generally aren't all that racist. Though the one kid I am referring to (he's in high school now, or their equivalent) does talk a lot about getting berated by the local white kids. I think he's a bit on the wrong side as well though, has a smart ass mouth and likes to cheat a lot on online games. So that might not be representative.