VAT applied to EU countries only

[anja83]

Hi kkmediaproduction,

Thanks again for your time. Is there any way to achieve that without forcing customers to register? My shop will lose business if I have to force customers to register (forced registration is responsible for between a 29% to 45% of cart abandonment according to e-consultancies like Webcredible and User Interface Engineering).

Thanks, hopefully you'll be able to think of a solution?

[Milbo]

Hello Anja83,

for this reason I wrote the eu vat id plugin, which does all this for you. http://extensions.virtuemart.net/vm-orders/eu-vat-id-checker-detail

We use this plugin also for our shop and I can proudly say that we had a check by the state today and everything is correct (yeh :-) ). The plugin works according to the European and WTO law/contracts and is following the german "PangV".

[pbergkotte]

Somebody found a solution for this ? Or maybe a website where it works ?

[jenkinhill]

It works fine on http://extensions.virtuemart.net/    Use the EU VAT checker in combination with GeoIP location.

To add to VAT complications,  the EU tax rules are about to change for digital (downloadable) products.........

[cybertom]

This one works for me. Thanks!!! 

Here is how I solved the VAT issue for NON EU countries.

1) created a tax rule VAT 23% with Vat tax per product +% 23.00 with shopper groups available for all and listed all the EU countries.
2) created a tax rule 23% tax for all with tax per product +% 23.00 with shopper groups anonymous only and let the countries Available for all

At the product page under pricing/base price I choose Apply default rules.

Now the visitor who is not logged in can see prices with tax and if they are logged in can see the prices with or without tax depending if they are in EU or outside EU.

ALSO

This solved my double pricing problem as I described here
http://forum.virtuemart.net/index.php?topic=118845.0