Hi - Prior to Brexit I used your plugin - EU VAT number - the plugin was very useful and did the job I wanted it to do

However, since we are no longer in the customs union and we don't charge VAT, the plugin was superfluous.

We ship regularly to the EU but deliveries were taking forever to move through customs because of the new Duty/Tax levies that the recipient now needs to pay on receipt

So we took the decision to use a DT1 service (tax and duty paid upfront) with our couriers, which means the parcels move through customs much quicker

The problem I had now was, I still needed to collect the customers VAT number for the customs paperwork but I also needed to collect the VAT. Your plugin does a great job of collecting and validating the VAT number but it also deducts the VAT which I didn't want.

I reached out to a developer on Codeable who provided me with the following code to add to the functions.php

Whilst this is a suitable temporary workaround I’m concerned that it may break something further down the road. So i’m reaching out to you to see if you could possibly include this feature in the next iteration of the plugin, perhaps make it a configurable option in the settings? Or failing that if you could give me your view on whether this code snippet will suffice

Alternative solution alternative solution, which should work, you could try the following: ~~~ addfunction('woocommerceeuvatnumbersetisvatexempt', function($exempt, $basecountrymatch, $billingcountry, $shippingcountry) { // Always return "false", so that the customer is never made "VAT exempt" return false; }, 9999, 4); ~~~ This function runs every time the EU VAT Number plugin tries to make a customer VAT exempt, and disables the exemption unconditionally. This should be sufficient to ensure that VAT is always applied to the orders, even when the customer enters a valid VAT number.

Hi, for EU B2B virtual goods a lot of tweaks are necessary to use woocommerce or woocommerce subscribtion when selling also to B2C

When making a extension with all proper tax classes (now everyone has to find out the wheel again, search all EU iso codes ( the right formated ones) makes the tax classses buy the extension http://docs.woothemes.com/document/eu-vat-number-2/ to collect and verify the right VAT, and the modify the checkout form.

Rules
Company / 'shop base country' / valid VAT= add 'shop base country'% VAT
Company / EU but not 'shop base country'/ valid VAT= don't add 'shop base country'% VAT
Individual / EU = add 'shop base country'% VAT
Individual / outside EU = no VAT

The checkout form should first ask if the shopper is an individual or company and only show the vat field to a company.

I have to make now a product variable with different tax rule to make this happen right now to show the right tax rule?

Hi,
It would be nice to have VAT splitted in static product bundles extension if products have not same VAT rates.
Product bundles extension is almost great for what I want to do, but I cannot use it because of accountancy issues:
I would like to create a static bundle product with a physical book and cards, and of course a discount.
The issue is that in France (and not only), books and other products have different VAT rates.
Book : VAT = 5.5%
Cards (or other products, even downloadable book) : VAT = 20%

Example:
Book = 30 € (incl VAT 5.5%)
Cards = 20 € (incl VAT 20%)

Bundle product Book + Cards = 40 € instead of 50 €

I don't care about displaying or not the single products prices, even it could be an option to display them or not.
What I suggest is that in the bundle product, we add the prices of single products INSIDE the bundle on the product page.
Thus, it would be easy for you to calculate the VAT amounts.

Bundle product:
- Book = 26 € (incl VAT 5.5%)
- Cards = 14 € (incl VAT 20%)
Total = 40 €
and in cart:
VAT 5.5% = 1.35 € (corresponding to the book)
VAT 20% = 2.34 € (corresponding to the cards)

Of course, we could have several products with same VAT amount inside the bundle product :
- book A (VAT 5.5%)
- book B (VAT 5.5%)
- cards (VAT 20%)
- pen (VAT 20%)
then the VAT amounts would be calculated like this:
VAT 5.5 = VAT Book A + VAT Book B
VAT 20 = VAT cards + VAT pen

exactly the same as if we add different products with different VAT rates in cart.

Thanks

Dear all,

do you have any updates in plan to address issues around UK BREXIT and the signed deal?

In particular it is required, that any EU business selling goods or services to UK based customers must collect the UK VAT at the point of sale and report it to HMRC

HOWEVER there is an threshold of 135,- GBP

That means that orders with value up to 135,- GBP UK VAT must be collected by the woocommerce shop

For orders above 135,- GBP zero VAT is charged and it must be collected by the shipping company upon delivery to the UK customer (standard procedure for all shipments outside of EU).

<strong>THE PROBLEM IS:</strong>

In Woocommerce there is no option to set a limit to charge i.e. 20% VAT for orders up to 135,- GBP and zero VAT above that value.

Especially problematic is, that <strong>the VAT record must be kept and submitted in GBP currency for HMRC reporting purposes.</strong> Hence Woocommerce stores that operate with EUR or any other currency must show or somehow keep a record of GBP versus main currency exchange rate, that was valid for that particular date when the order was placed.

Since this is a VERY important change for all EU businesses, I believe that it should be implemented in the Woocommerce itself by default and not via some third party solutions.

Source here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/changes-to-vat-treatment-of-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-from-1-january-2021/changes-to-vat-treatment-of-overseas-goods-sold-to-customers-from-1-january-2021?dm_i=9BK,76QJE,WE5NMK,T48J5,1

Regards
Michal

Any creating a B2B ecommerce website will probably find this one interesting. Basically VAT and TAX is very important in a B2B website and needs to be crystal clear. Basically business customers need to see the break down of VAT immediately and clearly as possible. Right now the products can be displayed to include VAT which is great and what most people want I am guessing. Then in the cart and checkout pages you can try to display the prices with the VAT breakdown by displaying prices excluding VAT however it just gives a VAT total at the end of the page and displays the individual products in the cart exclusive of VAT with no individual breakdown of the VAT per product.

Basically the cart should have a column for price | Tax | total and this is the way most B2B carts breakdown the VAT. Therefore it is crystal clear. The default cart layout right now is not ideal at all, especially when you have 5 or 6 products in the cart and then there is just one VAT total at the bottom and all the individual items are displaying exclusive of VAT. Very confusing and it leaves the customer trying to break it up. I would feel that there needs to be a true breakdown of the VAT per item in cart as well as a total. I hope this is considered in future releases. Thanks for your time as always.

Many online stores in the world are in several languages (especially when they need this VAT number plugin, which is for sales to different countries in the EU, which happens to be made up of countries which speak different languages) so it is very unfortunate if these field are not translatable. Don't look in Loco Translate or in Polylang String Translations - it is not possible to translate these user input strings. This has been confirmed by the plugin authors. I hope they include the option to translate these strings very soon so that this plugin is actually worth having in an EU woocommerce store.

If your sales are mainly B2B ( like mine are ) then prices should always be shown ex VAT/GST. However here in the UK if you want to list products with Google shopping then you need to show the product prices including VAT.

If I change all my prices to include VAT then business customers will be put off my the higher costs, they most likely not realise that they can knock 20% off the costs. My competitors have cart systems that show both. This should be an option within the woocommerce settings so business and retail customers know exactly what they will be paying when they view a product, rather than having to add to cart and then view cart.