Will this plugin help?

  • Resolved Vero44

    (@vero44)


    8 years, 5 months ago

    Hi. I live in the UK and need to ship NON-DIGITAL products around the world from sales on my WooCommerce website. My understanding is that I need to charge VAT on UK and EU sales but not to people outside of the EU. I also shouldn’t charge VAT to any EU businesses who can provide a VAT number. More info here:

    https://www.gov.uk/guidance/vat-exports-dispatches-and-supplying-goods-abroad

    What is the best way to set this up and will your plugin help?

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Plugin Author David Anderson / Team Updraft

    (@davidanderson)

    8 years, 5 months ago

    Yes, you can use the plugin to help with non-digital goods. There are lots of people doing that. Though, if you are doing business-to-business sales are want to take VAT numbers, that’s a feature of the Premium version, not the free: https://www.simbahosting.co.uk/s3/product/woocommerce-eu-vat-compliance/

    David

    Thread Starter Vero44

    (@vero44)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    Thanks for the quick reply David.

    I’m using a table rate shipping plugin and there is UK VAT applied on my shipping, which I believe is the correct way to charge if I’m shipping a VAT chargeable product.

    Let’s say my price to ship to a private individual in France is £100. My shipping table for that country has £100 in it, which would work fine. If the person has a business though and they add their VAT number, the software would then only charge £80 shipping (£100 MINUS their £20 local VAT reduction), leaving me out-of-pocket.

    How would I prevent this from happening?

    Plugin Author David Anderson / Team Updraft

    (@davidanderson)

    8 years, 4 months ago

    I think you’re over-complicating things. If the customer is marked as VAT exempt, then WooCommerce core won’t apply any taxes to their order.

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