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!
Agree!!
Ok what is VAT?
VAT = Value Added Tax. It is a progressive tax. i.e.: a farmer grows corn. He sells the corn to a distributer, there is an added VAT to the whole sale of the corn. The distributor now sells the corn to a retailer, for the price wholesaler paid, plus the paid VAT, plus his markup, and plus a (now) new VAT. The retailer, in turn, when s/he sells the corn to a consumer, has to charge another VAT on top of all the rest that has been paid.
Or, in other words, a VAT is an aggressive sales tax, applied at each and every stage of sale from source to end user.
So many taxes made me reminder a country that I know