VAT taxes for EU - coming to DG?

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Ulrich Manhattan Beach, CA(Zone 11) Jun 14, 2003

What in the world has "...This means that American companies selling downloadable music, movies, games and software to customers in the EU might have to collect taxes..." got to do with DG anyways??? Did anyone really read the link Dave started this thread with?

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dave Jun 14, 2003

On July 1, the 15-nation EU will begin collecting the VAT, or value-added tax, on sales of digital goods and other electronic transactions from U.S. and other non-EU companies.

This covers subscription-based web services. A Dave's Garden subscription is a "digital good".

dave

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monika Herbstein, Germany(Zone 5a) Jun 14, 2003

Dave, in Germany, a subscription to a Gardenforum like yours is tax free.

We have many so called flower or garden societies which are financed by members fee. Davesgarden can be compared with them, the only difference is its electronic.

This message was edited Sunday, Jun 15th 2:38 AM

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langbr Lenexa, KS(Zone 6a) Jun 18, 2003

Well, I run an internet business and this is the first I've heard of this EU VAT on internet sales originating outside the EU. And I have alot of EU sales of product. Today, when I ship product the consumer in the EU pays VAT when the goods are received. This is a whole different ball game. So I started searching the web and found this article.

http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002may/gee20020509011626.htm

NOTE: It was posted on May 9, 2002 and contains 120 opinion posts/comments from online readers. All of the comments are from 2002. The first line of the article says the EU ministers passed this new law. That's over 1 year ago. Are we sure this isn't an ongoing debate just like the US internet tax debate?

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