My phone company has recently informed me that vat will now be added to the cancellation fee. So now, if I cancel my contract early, I have to pay tax on the fee. Where is the value in that? Government gotta tax, it is what they do. With barbers being closed again, maybe Boris will re-introduce the beard tax.Held wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 6:01 pmIt taxes the value added to the resources by the company during production. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surplus_value
bit of a rant about devs, and international sales....
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- KVRAF
- 3508 posts since 12 May, 2011
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- KVRian
- 1061 posts since 3 Jan, 2020
I was just explaining where the name comes from. Sometimes things change or are applied to things that differ from where the name originally comes from. If you wanna bitch about taxes, please leave me out of it
- KVRAF
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- 1986 posts since 29 Apr, 2010 from NYC
i stepped away from this as i didnt want to start fighting with people.
just so were all clear. i have no issue with vat. or taxes. my issue is that as a us resident i am not subject to paying vat charges...and if i do pay them...then its just extra money the dev gets to keep. not to mention that its not insignificant either, the vat charges for the bundle i wanted to buy come to nearly 50 usd. i didnt give the name of the dev, because they are a very small newish dev, with only a few niche type plugins available. id be surprised if anyone not into a specific kind of music (that im also not going to say) would have even heard of them. they are more an artist who has a few plugins available than a plugin developer.
and also so were clear...this isnt a case of complicated tax formulas or anything...its very simple:
eu seller + non eu buyer = no vat
thats it...end of story.
in no way do i feel like the dev is intentionally trying to rip non eu customers off...but i find it concerning that after being made aware of the problem...they seem pretty nonchalant about it.
the notion that its too difficult to fix or its just not important enough is insane to me. i find it difficult to believe that any of you would be ok with having to pay an extra $50 for something simply because the payment service provider doesnt know how to provide proper payment services. which one of you is going into a store and just letting them charge you extra $$ because the checkout person doesnt know how to use the register?
i mean come on... a software dev selling digital goods to people all over the world in 2021...how is it even possible they cant work out how to charge people the correct amount of money?
just so were all clear. i have no issue with vat. or taxes. my issue is that as a us resident i am not subject to paying vat charges...and if i do pay them...then its just extra money the dev gets to keep. not to mention that its not insignificant either, the vat charges for the bundle i wanted to buy come to nearly 50 usd. i didnt give the name of the dev, because they are a very small newish dev, with only a few niche type plugins available. id be surprised if anyone not into a specific kind of music (that im also not going to say) would have even heard of them. they are more an artist who has a few plugins available than a plugin developer.
and also so were clear...this isnt a case of complicated tax formulas or anything...its very simple:
eu seller + non eu buyer = no vat
thats it...end of story.
in no way do i feel like the dev is intentionally trying to rip non eu customers off...but i find it concerning that after being made aware of the problem...they seem pretty nonchalant about it.
the notion that its too difficult to fix or its just not important enough is insane to me. i find it difficult to believe that any of you would be ok with having to pay an extra $50 for something simply because the payment service provider doesnt know how to provide proper payment services. which one of you is going into a store and just letting them charge you extra $$ because the checkout person doesnt know how to use the register?
i mean come on... a software dev selling digital goods to people all over the world in 2021...how is it even possible they cant work out how to charge people the correct amount of money?
- Rad Grandad
- 38044 posts since 6 Sep, 2003 from Downeast Maine
then it should be an hpc topic...if we are going to talk about VAT that is where it will go, if we want to talk about how chaos can work around this that might be another story.
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- 10196 posts since 12 Mar, 2012 from the Bavarian Alps to my feet and the globe around my head
But there are so many thousands of plugins and many vendors even in the United States, then I would choose a better one which doesn't keep VAT
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- KVRAF
- 4284 posts since 15 Feb, 2020
All fair enough.chaosWyrM wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:09 am i stepped away from this as i didnt want to start fighting with people.
just so were all clear. i have no issue with vat. or taxes. my issue is that as a us resident i am not subject to paying vat charges...and if i do pay them...then its just extra money the dev gets to keep. not to mention that its not insignificant either, the vat charges for the bundle i wanted to buy come to nearly 50 usd. i didnt give the name of the dev, because they are a very small newish dev, with only a few niche type plugins available. id be surprised if anyone not into a specific kind of music (that im also not going to say) would have even heard of them. they are more an artist who has a few plugins available than a plugin developer.
and also so were clear...this isnt a case of complicated tax formulas or anything...its very simple:
eu seller + non eu buyer = no vat
thats it...end of story.
in no way do i feel like the dev is intentionally trying to rip non eu customers off...but i find it concerning that after being made aware of the problem...they seem pretty nonchalant about it.
the notion that its too difficult to fix or its just not important enough is insane to me. i find it difficult to believe that any of you would be ok with having to pay an extra $50 for something simply because the payment service provider doesnt know how to provide proper payment services. which one of you is going into a store and just letting them charge you extra $$ because the checkout person doesnt know how to use the register?
i mean come on... a software dev selling digital goods to people all over the world in 2021...how is it even possible they cant work out how to charge people the correct amount of money?
In which case if it's that simple and the dev won't cooperate, find a different dev. As you said in OP, it's more of a rant than looking for a solution with that particular dev.
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- KVRist
- 482 posts since 17 Sep, 2020
But some of the best plugin devs are based in Europe. So it's not something you can always get away from.Tricky-Loops wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:28 am But there are so many thousands of plugins and many vendors even in the United States, then I would choose a better one which doesn't keep VAT
My general strategy is go to the most reliable and cheapest places who usually offer decent discounts in cart (Audio Deluxe or JRR, etc). As the VAT is added (automatically) it will in turn be lower as the plugin in now cheaper. Of course you still have to pay VAT in the end but it takes the sting out of it.
- GRRRRRRR!
- 15847 posts since 14 Jun, 2001 from Somewhere else, on principle
Taxing people on what they spend makes a lot more sense to me than paying tax based on what they earn. Rich people's accountants are very good at avoiding income tax but consumption taxes are generally much harder to avoid, which makes them much fairer.Effectsworks wrote: ↑Tue Jan 19, 2021 11:38 pmVAT is theft... Disguised as a tax. No one in the EU like paying for it...
Anyway, I've never encountered this problem. I've either paid no tax or, more recently, paid just the 10% GST that we pay on everything in Australia.
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- KVRAF
- 6560 posts since 14 Nov, 2006 from Ankara, Turkey
As a NON-EU developer, I wholeheartedly support that +
non eu seller + eu buyer = No VAT
This has been the main reason I refused to work with payment processors like 2checkout & fastspring.
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- 10196 posts since 12 Mar, 2012 from the Bavarian Alps to my feet and the globe around my head
But that should be the task of a professional payment processing service that everyone is treated with tax or not with tax depending on the country he/she is living. Otherwhise why would you need a professional payment processing service (and I assume it costs some money, too) when they haven't even implemented the basics of every tax system
- KVRist
- 373 posts since 2 Feb, 2005 from UK
That's your opinion - the eu governing body disagrees with you.
Except the dev DOESNT get to keep it - if they collect VAT they must hand it over to the tax collecting agency in their country - otherwise they are breaking the law in their country.chaosWyrM wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:09 am and if i do pay them...then its just extra money the dev gets to keep. not to mention that its not insignificant either, the vat charges for the bundle i wanted to buy come to nearly 50 usd. i didnt give the name of the dev, because they are a very small newish dev, with only a few niche type plugins available. id be surprised if anyone not into a specific kind of music (that im also not going to say) would have even heard of them. they are more an artist who has a few plugins available than a plugin developer.
except thats not the formula, so not end of story, to simplify to your formulas level of detail, it actually looks like this:
eu seller = location of point of sale = tax rule = MUST charge VAT regardless of the buyers location.
Just think about it for a minute - they have no idea where in the world you are. They are not (in the end) selling to "people" they are selling to a machine, which has an IP address - which could be routed through any VPN - you could be in Birmingham Alabama or Birmingham UK and they have no way of knowing. For example - you tell me where I am? Any ideas? They could ask you where you are, and having a system where they ask would end up with a vast majority of customers falsely claiming to be in tax exempt locations. Their local tax collectors would take a dim view of this approach.chaosWyrM wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 1:09 am in no way do i feel like the dev is intentionally trying to rip non eu customers off...but i find it concerning that after being made aware of the problem...they seem pretty nonchalant about it.
the notion that its too difficult to fix or its just not important enough is insane to me. i find it difficult to believe that any of you would be ok with having to pay an extra $50 for something simply because the payment service provider doesnt know how to provide proper payment services. which one of you is going into a store and just letting them charge you extra $$ because the checkout person doesnt know how to use the register?
i mean come on... a software dev selling digital goods to people all over the world in 2021...how is it even possible they cant work out how to charge people the correct amount of money?
You seem to have a very naive view of how tax works, how international law works and even how the internet works.
I assure you as a developer selling digital goods in the world I dont take tax collection in a nonchalant manner - I, like you, am bound by a set of rules and laws - which when you buy from an eu supplier are the rules being applied to them in their location - not you in yours - even if I wanted to do something about it (which I gladly would) I basically am stuck with it.
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- Beware the Quoth
- 33109 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Its a tax on the value. According to t'wikipedia the distinction is that it gets added incrementally at each point of production, distribution, or sale.
So different from a sales tax, that only gets added at the point of sale.
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- 10196 posts since 12 Mar, 2012 from the Bavarian Alps to my feet and the globe around my head
From the website about VAT from the EU:
"The Value Added Tax, or VAT, in the European Union is a general, broadly based consumption tax assessed on the value added to goods and services. It applies more or less to all goods and services that are bought and sold for use or consumption in the European Union. Thus, goods which are sold for export or services which are sold to customers abroad are normally not subject to VAT."
"The place of taxation is determined by where the goods are supplied."
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/b ... -is-vat_en
https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/b ... ere-tax_en
- u-he
- 28044 posts since 8 Aug, 2002 from Berlin
I guess that's why the EU has banned payment processors as full service with shop and stuff. Instead, ShareIt & Co now act as resellers. But as global resellers have dependencies in many countries, the VAT in those countries applies as well. Additionally, some countries, like some states in the US, charge VAT on top, regardless of where you're selling from. In the US I would not for a blink get to the idea of circumventing such a tax.