German store with vat, selling to europe and other countries without Vat

[Pierre Smits]

Robert,

I have created JIRA
issue-5262<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5262>regarding
the tax authorities and have created a patch for this. Regarding
TaxAuthId and naming I have made some corrections to include the names as I
could find them on the official sites of the tax authorities. I also
several regex regarding the tax id patterns. As well as the correct
currencies of the parties involved.

Please give the patch a lookover.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

[Robert Gan]

Hey Pierre,

thank you for creating the jira. I am still on checking the VAT PRocesses, that everything works.

Now I found a small problem:

Situation:
Customer registered with Vat and is Vat free approved from me
Customer goes to quickcheckout
Customer chooses a Shipping addres within the EU (i.ex. his home country Austria - AUT)
Customer chooses a billing address in my home country (Germany)

Than the checkoutreview page shows 0% Vat.

otherways arround are fine (billing addres in AUT and shipping addres to Germany, than 19% calculated).

Do you know where the logic is handled? Because I think its not common to offer the change of the billing address, maybe I should deactivate that. But I thought that sometimes it is interesting for the customer.


The logic just seems to check the shipping destination and not the billing destination.

Greetings.

[Pierre Smits]

Robert,

VAT calculation is by definition (and in general - see various legal
documents or ask you fiscal advisor) based on where the place of delivery
is. And not where invoice is supposed to go. As such both use-cases
(delivery abroad and  invoice in home country  giving 0% VAT versus
delivery in home country and invoice abroad giving 19%) are correct.

As such it is also, as you have shown, in OFBiz.

Regards,

Pierre Smits

[Paul Foxworthy]

Hi Pierre and Robert,

Yes, isNexus implies the company has enough of a presence in a tax authority's region that it should collect  tax.

See David Jones's nice description at http://ofbiz.135035.n4.nabble.com/VAT-tax-authority-tp192517p192530.html

Cheers

Paul Foxworthy

Pierre Smits-3 wrote

Robert,

Re Nexus
This is something US American. I don't use it here in The Netherlands.

Re: prices in webstore.
The easiest way would be to setup a different webstore for B2B with that
setting, I guess. But I guess that setting up different tax authorities for
B2B customers should also work.

Pierre Smits