Originally Posted by
Marc sierra
Do you also know what is done with the EEC VAT number when the VAT is removed? Is there a message send to the tax agency in your own country that something is bought without VAT on that EEC VAT number, and as a result the owner of the EEC VAT number still has to pay the VAT in his own country?
Every VAT free EEC sale is recorded, we have to check the validity of the number ( do it here:
http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/ ) and if it checks out the goods are sent VAT free, we then complete an EEC sales list quarterly, if the numbers don't check out they come back to us, I don't know what happens then.