Third Party Solutions
An increasing number of third parties are announcing how they intend to deal with the EU VAT issue. Please let me know if you know of any more. Solutions below are grouped into four categories:
- Intermediaries
- These providers absolve you of needing to register for VAT as they act as the primary seller of the product, paying you a royalty or cut of profits.
- Sales and Delivery Services
- Software - either hosted, self-hosted or plugins for WordPress etc. that allow VAT registered people to collect the required proof and charge the right VAT.
- APIs and other services
- Services that can help if you are implementing your own solution by dealing with part of the process for you
- Plugins for CMS and ecommerce software
- If you sell from WordPress or via some ecommerce software, a roundup of plugins that can help with the VAT reporting issue
Intermediaries
If you only sell your products via one of these services then you do not need to register for MOSS.
EU VAT aware Sales and Delivery Software
VAT Registered or intending to register? These services can help you sell your products and ensure you have the data required to complete your MOSS return.
APIs and other services
If you are rolling your own solution or already have systems in place these serices can save you writing a lot of code in order to comply. They may also offer plugins for ecommerce systems or payment providers.
Name |
Description |
Announcement / further information |
Quaderno |
If you sell using Stripe Quaderno can ensure you charge the correct VAT, issue invoices and provide a report |
Quaderno and EU VAT |
Taxamo |
API integration with carts and several payment providers to deal with billing, invoicing and reporting |
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VATAPI |
A developer friendly API for retrieving VAT rates, invoicing and VAT number validation |
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Postcode Anywhere |
Validate addresses, do address lookups and make the UI of collecting addresses easier |
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EuVatBanner |
Simple JS script to fetch the country of the visitor. Also displays a banner explaining why service blocked in that country. |
Free and Open Source. Questions to Matt Burns. |
Code libraries
Plugins for CMS or ecommerce software
Name |
Description |
Announcement / further information |
Easy EU VAT WordPress Plugin |
A Plugin for iThemes Exchange |
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Free WooCommerce Plugin |
Add/update current VAT rates for different countries, record location based on IP Address, distinguish VAT from other taxes and provide audit information. |
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WooCommerce Plugin |
Extends the free plugin with the ability to handle location conflicts via self-certification, input and validate VAT numbers and handle exemption for B2B customers. |
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IPgeo Plugin for ExpressionEngine |
To help you look up where people are from based on IP address |
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GeoIP Plugin for Craft CMS |
To help you look up where people are from based on IP address |
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EU VAT Redirect |
WordPress plugin. Allows you to set buy links differently for visitors from the EU and outside the EU, for VAT purposes. |
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WooCommerce Taxamo Plugin |
Taxamo connection with WooCommerce. Requires an account with Taxamo. |
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WooCommerce EU VAT Checkout |
WordPress plugin for WooCommerce. Fixates end prices of downloadable products, recalculates included VAT dynamically for EU countries during cart/checkout. Built upon WooCommerce’s tax classes/rates feature, extendable through WooCommerce API. |
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WooCommerce EU VAT Assistant |
WordPress plugin for WooCommerce. Extends the standard WooCommerce sale process and assists in achieving compliance with the new EU VAT regime starting on the 1st of January 2015. It's a fully featured, premium plugin, distributed free of charge. |
Note: a paid version is also available to anyone who would like to get access to premium support.
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WooCommerce EU VAT Assistant - Paid version |
WordPress plugin for WooCommerce. Extends the standard WooCommerce sale process and assists in achieving compliance with the new EU VAT regime starting on the 1st of January 2015. This paid version includes access to premium support. |
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Easy Digital Downloads – Taxamo Integration |
WordPress plugin for Easy Digital Downloads. Integrates Easy Digital Download purchases into Taxamo, allowing you to be EU Compliant. Free but paid support available. |
Premium Support available. |