As a company based in EU, we would like to buy a copy of X5 but can't, as online store insists on adding VAT. We have own VAT id and it is legaly required to buy things without VAT and add our countries own VAT to the price.
Any decent online store in EU has an option to buy things without VAT when you supply VAT id, except Corel.
We simply do not want to buy from lousy local distributer as they add nothing but 1-200 € to the price! Corel please fix this!
hywelharris said:so its not quite as aggressive as you make it appear.
In the U.S. we pay NO TAX on any items used in the manufacture of or a product we sell. No tax on internet sales we do pay tax on items used for administrative purposes.
Then in PA it's 6%, at 17% why don't they just use a gun and steal it from you?
David Milisock said: Then in PA it's 6%, at 17% why don't they just use a gun and steal it from you?
Here, in California, the sales tax goes from 8.75% to 10.0%, depending in which county the sale is made. (I think the 10% is the upper amount, based upon Los Angeles County....but then I don't read all the tax rates for the various counties, when I file and pay my taxes based upon my sales....)And California is facing a huge deficit.....go figure.
It would be nice to get our sales taxes back down to a decent figure....
hywelharris said: What you failed to mention though Hugh is that every business that pays VAT also claims back the VAT that it pays, so its not quite as aggressive as you make it appear. The end result is that the government get 17.5% (in the UK, different elsewhere) of the final sale price. It still doesn't explain the 100%+ markup on Corel prices in the EU, though to be fair to Corel they are only following Adobe's lead. Companies charge what they can get away with as we all know.
Agree, its not soaggressive in my views either.
VAT in Sweden is also called MOMS.What is that?Well in America, USA you have it too. You may not think so, but you have.You pay taxes all the time. Well at least I do on every trip I have made in the USA.It says different ercantage taxes on everything I buy.In Sweden I am either a VAT registered company or not a VAT registered company.If I am a VAT company it allows me to deduct /write off any VAT I am charged when buying goods and services and everything needed to make my business. And I also HAVE to add VAT on everything I sell within Sweden and sometimes the EU.
VAT? Yes why is Greece having such a bad situation for the moment? They havent payed their taxes for one thing. SO the country is going bankrupt. Almost. They have now increased the VAT on goods and a few things more.
Stefan Lindblad said: In Sweden I am either a VAT registered company or not a VAT registered company.If I am a VAT company it allows me to deduct /write off any VAT I am charged when buying goods and services and everything needed to make my business. And I also HAVE to add VAT on everything I sell within Sweden and sometimes the EU.
In Sweden I am either a VAT registered company or not a VAT registered company.If I am a VAT company it allows me to deduct /write off any VAT I am charged when buying goods and services and everything needed to make my business. And I also HAVE to add VAT on everything I sell within Sweden and sometimes the EU.
Same here. If registered we buy an item with VAT and submit that for a return.
BTW, our rate here is 16%. :(
Adrian Juman said: Same here. If registered we buy an item with VAT and submit that for a return. BTW, our rate here is 16%. :(
We have three different amounts.6%12%25%When I buy groceries its 12%Eating at a restaurant its 12%When I buy a book its 6%When I buy a computer its 25%.And I charge VAT/MOMS when I send invoices to my clients.6% to media and book publishers25% to all my ad agency clients.12% when I sell art work such as original work like oil paintings, acrylics sculptures.
And EVERY company making any kind of business ALWAYS charge VAT on top.YOu could refrase and say its included if you like, but when registered companys are making bsuiness, like myself, and always talk money, we talk Exluding VAT. So when I tell a client I will charge 5000 Swedish crowns (aproximatley 500 euros) they say OK and expect with no hazzle at all, to be charge extra on the invoice for the VAT.
That means their accountant/economy staff rigth away can see the VAT/ "moms" and put that right away to their "deductable/write off account".
Another thing I have experienced is when I am making business with a Swedish Company compared to for example a British/England company is that when I as a Swedish company send an invoice and give them 30 days to pay the invoice , its 30 days. Period. They are expected to pay on the day. If not a reminder (not FINAL DEMAND) a Reminder comes a week later. If not payed it goes useally on the day to a Debt collector. If not payed, they get a fine and have to pay all the extra costs. For example I pay the Debt collector, but my client will by law have to pay me that extra amount as well.
In england some client, dont pay on the day and wait for a Final Demand to arrive and then maybe pay when Final Demand has come. To put it simple: in Sweden we expect and are apparently more strict when it comes to pay invoices.