Posts by Jeremy Wood64

Carol Price4 said:They need to provide the VAT ID for their tax representative in Germany—assuming they’ll be handling the export there—otherwise, just charge our local sales tax.

Sorry, I’m a little lost here. The goods aren't even leaving the US—they're basically just moving from one US location to another. There isn't an export happening.
The invoice goes from the US to America, and then probably from America to Germany.
Does this mean an American would actually need some kind of European Union VAT number or a tax representative just to sell stuff from within the European Union to another country in the EU?

Does anyone actually know how this works? Like, what should I be putting on my invoice if the client is a legal entity from a third country (the USA) but the actual delivery happens within the European Union (Germany)?

I'm trying to figure out if I should mark it as VAT exempt under some specific local rule, or if we're looking at a reverse charge situation here. And if it is reverse charge, whose tax ID am I even supposed to list, since our buyer is based over in the States?