One Spanish subscriber creates an EU VAT obligation. There is no threshold for consumer digital sales abroad
Digital Services VAT Checker
Who the customer is and where they sit decides the VAT on software: the verdict for any sale in one pass, with the reason in words and the risk in pounds.
Digital Services VAT Checker
Who the customer is and where they are decides the VAT on software: the answer in one pass, with the reason in words.
The three rules that cover most of SaaS
UK customers pay UK VAT at 20 per cent, business or consumer, and the sale counts toward the £90,000 registration threshold.
Business customers abroad are outside the scope of UK VAT: the customer accounts for it themselves under reverse charge. Keep the evidence, a VAT number does the job in the EU.
EU CONSUMERS are the trap: their country's VAT applies with NO threshold, from the first sale. Register for the Non-Union OSS and file one quarterly return rather than twenty-seven. Elsewhere, UK VAT does not apply but local rules can, US sales tax being the famous one.
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