Cross border e-commerce VAT

With the construction of the "the Belt and Road", new opportunities are opening up for foreign investment, and more and more enterprises or investors want to expand their businesses. In recent years, global tax issues have been given more attention in different countries, with Amazon as a representative requiring global sellers to register their VAT numbers. Tax authorities in countries such as Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Italy are also synchronously requesting the processing of VAT number applications, which has also led to the normalization of VAT number applications.

Moreover, the VAT tax numbers in various European countries are independent, and the methods of application and declaration, account evaluation, and supplementary tax systems are also different. Not every country's VAT needs to be registered. For example, if your product needs to be sold to which country, you need to register VAT for that country. VAT for each country is not universal.

Therefore, before entering the markets of various European countries, cross-border e-commerce platforms, cross-border e-commerce sellers, and freight forwarding logistics companies must pay attention to the issue of VAT tax numbers.