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Mini One Stop Shop (MOSS)

Newsletter issue - November 2014

This sounds like a friendly retail outlet where you might buy a pint of milk on a Sunday evening. In fact it is short-hand for the online portal which UK businesses should use from 2015 to account for VAT they owe in respect of digital services provided to customers in other EU countries.

We mentioned this new rule in our July 2014 newsletter. "Digital services" includes a multitude of products such as:

From 1 January 2015, if you sell a digital service to someone in another EU country, who is not a business (ie an individual, Government body or perhaps a charity), you must account for VAT in the country where that customer belongs. This means you need to charge VAT on your invoice to your overseas customer at the rate that applies in the customer's country, and then pay that VAT to the tax authority of that country.

As there are 28 EU countries it would be an administrative nightmare to complete a quarterly VAT return in every country in which you have customers. Hence the need for an online portal (MOSS) to do all the VAT accounting and payment in one go.

The VAT MOSS portal is now open for businesses to register (see www.gov.uk/vat-on-digital-services-in-the-eu), but it's not going to solve all the admin nightmares. For instance:

You also need to be VAT registered in the UK before you can use the MOSS system. Contact us and let's talk about what you need to do.

 


 

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