How to avoid paying VAT ?

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Many pages does that, not the first time I have to remind the website I'm based in Hong Kong so they remove the VAT
 
HK, Singapore and US don't have VAT for digital services online
he runs an ecommerce and so sell goods as far as i understood. The company which effectively sell/store/send the goods will have to pay the VAT and this not on the profit margin but on the sale price.
Thinking you can invoice from a company outside EU is no more possible as even the big marketplace are already or will soon (depend on which one) report all sales so a matching can be made between sellers, their turnover and if they are effectively paying VAT.
moreover some places like amazon or ebay will collect themselves the VAT :/
 
Have a look to a website like dx.com
Do you see them charging any VAT?
 
I would like to ask something... When you order from Google Ads, they gave invoice with written that "VAT is up to you". End of story, they made invoice with 0% of VAT, and let you pay this if you would like. So if I have an LLC in US can I do like this without caring from when they came from?
 
The procedure they apply is called "Reverse charge on EU VAT", meaning that whenever there is a B2B cross-border sale happening (Google is located in Ireland) they can basically reverse the duty of VAT obligation towards the receiver of the invoice instead of issuer of invoice.

Technically what you can do is set up a company in an EU country (EU company is way better in terms of payment processor etc.) where you do not expect customers to be located. Then you put in your terms and conditions that your website targets exclusively business customers. By having your customers agree to that you have a chance to apply the reverse charge VAT rule on all your customer and thus put the burden of the VAT obligations on your customer.
 
Not an option. You need to get customers VAT registration numbers and put them on each invoice. Even if everyone fakes the number, during an audit the tax authority will notice that these fake numbers on invoices do not match the companies or the payments have not been received from the companies bank accounts.
 

Right, did not consider that. But afaik the trick does work with digital goods and a company located in Switzerland. But this thread here seems to be about ecommerce.
 

And so practically if you would have for example an US LLC Wyoming and you are going to sell a service to Italian people you need add on services +22% of vat or you could have problem? But if in Wyoming there is not invoice for not business..
 
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