Hi everyone! Thanks for being such an awesome community. We recently shipped an update to Shopify for merchants selling within the EU. You may have seen it - if not, you can check it out under Settings > Taxes in your admin, and look for “European Union” on the list of regions for taxes. From here,…

Totally. B2B customers should use the exemption functionality on the customer in Shopify once the VAT ID has been verified. We don’t automatically do this today.

Hi Donohue, Just having a chat with a Guru as we’re having new problems with shipping tax since this change and don’t have an explanation for our client yet. In essence: In carts containing no taxable products, shipping is not taxed In carts containing 1 or more taxable products, shipping IS taxe…

Hey there, This is a bug on our part. We’ve automated shipping taxability based on the taxability of the items on an order, but haven’t fully deprecated that button.

Hi Donohue, Thanks for the prompt reply. In the case that an order’s line items are all set to ‘not apply tax’, but the shipping should still be taxed, how do we go about setting this up? We’ve got a situation with a client where, since this update, some orders have shipping taxed, and others not,…

*Hi @Donohue *! This is the best news for beginners I think.. I created my website before one month and I am still waiting for my VAT and Organization numbers. It’s my first time doing the tax stuff and I am not sure if I did it write.. I wrote my personal number in the configuration instead of …

Hey there, if you’re using An Post, you can use a shipping override to accomplish a zero-rated shipping transaction. We don’t have insight into whether or not you’re just passing on the cost of zero-rated postage or not.

Hi Donohue, Do you have any information on when this bug will be resolved? We have the same issue. Best Fred

Can you please make a simple check box in the tax section which, being having it checked, permits to collect VAT only for customers which are located in the same country of the shop? I think this influences the customer behaviours, the customers say more expensive prices, which causes less sales fo…

Actually this change was very problematic for our store. If you are selling within the EU there is the so called " Threshold for application of the special scheme for distance selling" (please check the documents I attached). These are official EU guidelines. For Austria you have a tax exemption lim…

New Tax Configuration for EU - What you need to know

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daniel_cojocari September 23, 2020, 2:52pm 9

What can we do in the case when we are working with AN Post, an Irish company that does not charge VAT? Why should we charge the clients VAT if for shipping we don’t pay it?

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