BrickLink Discussion Forum

In Help, TDH_Bricks writes:

Hello,
just recognized there is implemented Distance selling / OSS registration on the
Store Management Page already.
As I did not see any official announcement about this up to now, can you please
confirm this can be used now (switch it ON and insert OSS registration data and
file)?
And how is the recalculation to EU recipient country VAT rate done?

PS: Because of the ordering "Technical Error" discussed last few days on the
Forum we tried to switch it ON and fill in requested data. Today one EU order
was received and it seems there is no recalculation of VAT from our VAT rate
to recipient VAT rate but only calculation of recipient VAT amount from order
total. This would mean the VAT difference is on our store account what is not
good and we will switch this off.

Thank you.

Yesterday I enabled this, but it looks like it's not fully ready:

Like you said above, the total is kept the same and then from that VAT is calculated.
It's not wrong per-se, but also not a nice way. Why should the seller receive
less when a buyer is from a country with a higher VAT %?
BL should instead take the price, remove the VAT % from the sellers country,
then add the VAT % of the buyers country. So net price is the same, price the
buyer pays is higher when the VAT % is also higher. Works like this on Amazon
(and BO) too.

Two bugs that need resolving asap:

1. The VAT checkbox is greyed out when someone orders? It then for example mentions
"Germany VAT 19%" which is nice. But sometimes I need to disable VAT and send
a new invoice, because buyer presents a valid VAT id and it's then B2B transaction.
If this is not possible any more we have a huge issue. This is used A LOT in
EU. For work-around, see bug 2.

2. Just edited an order status (from PACKED to READY) on an order that had VAT
checkbox disabled. After it saved, it sets VAT checkbox to OFF on all my orders
that had this new "distance selling". So now they show no more VAT and the totals
are lower (even the paid orders).. wow!

Had to use the Chrome inspector to remove the DISABLED flag from the checkbox.
Then click it and save it back.. pfff.. VAT is back. At least a work-around for
bug 1

Please contact me if you need help fixing / testing this.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Nov 2, 2021 13:59

Subject:

Re: cant loadprices via bricksync and brickstore

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Technical Issues

In Technical Issues, ShipABrick writes:

this is the first time ive done it via brickstore but I think I did it correctly.
I updated my prices on brickstore, saved as a bsx file. opened bricksync and
put the updated bsx file into the bricksync file, typed loadprices today.bsx
into bricksync but I get this:
11:38:40 LOG: User command "loadprices today.bsx"
11:38:40 ERROR: We failed to load a BSX file at path "today.bsx".
11:38:40 INFO: Current working directory is: "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\bricksync-win64".

I wasnt great at it when it was brickstock, now twould seem im even worse. please
help

sherry

Can you check if your file "today.bsx" is in the folder "C:\Users\Owner\Desktop\bricksync-win64"?
This is where BrickSync expects it. If it's already there then the file itself
might have a formatting issue.

BrickStore saves the XML structure like:
Inventory Currency="EUR"

This could also be an issue. It was fixed a few months back in BrickSync:
https://github.com/ZZJHONS/Bricksync/commit/76b53e712b02f3f4944621b8733b7f12e6c3a9aa

You could also simply open the BSX file in an editor and remove the Currency=xxx
part at the top.

Hope this provides some hints!

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Oct 24, 2021 16:02

Subject:

Re: Wanted List - no remarks when uploading .bsx

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In Help, EDOM writes:

In Help, TheBrickGuys writes:

In Help, EDOM writes:

I have created a huge list of parts missing in different sets using BrickStore.
In the Remarks column, I put the set numbers to identify which part belongs to
which set.

Then I uploaded the file to a BrickLink Wanted List. Unfortunately the Remarks
are not uploaded along with the parts.

Does anyone know a workaround (or can tell me what I am doing wrong)?

Regards,
Sven

Are you using the most up to date version of "2021.10.2 (build 503)" or at least
close to it? The reason I ask is because the newer versions have a lot more functionality
then the older versions.

Jim

Yes, I am using BrickStore 2021.10.2 (build: 503)

Hi Sven, it works for me on that version.

Just to check: you select the parts (CTRL+A for all) then from menu: File | Export
| BL wanted list XML. Hit enter on the popup.

It opens the page in the browser, select tab "Upload BrickLink XML format" and
paste it in.

This should show your remarks in the preview. Be sure to use the remarks column,
not comments column.

Does this work for you?

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Oct 24, 2021 07:40

Subject:

Re: I thought you could add to "Ready" orders?

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Technical Issues

In Technical Issues, Teup writes:

One of my customers added something to his order and it created a new order.
Even though the order was "ready". I thought it would always create a new batch
to the existing order, as long as the order isn't marked "packed"?

He first got a message saying that the value was lower than the minimum order
value, which I thought was already strange since it was supposed to be an addition.
I gave him the bypass password and it spawned a new order.

Thanks for the replies! Also, I switched off VAT for this order. Right now I'm
thinking it's probably either one of these two things:

Switching off VAT bars additions (I wouldn't know why though, if the transaction
is 0% VAT the amount should not matter) - or - having been set to 'packed'
permanently ruins the ability to add something even when the status is changed
back.

I checked a couple of orders that had this issue and I think it's indeed
when 0% VAT is selected on the order. Once that is selected, you cannot add a
new batch. This behaviour started from around the time that the VAT changes were
deployed. Hope that provides some hints to solve it

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Oct 23, 2021 16:53

Subject:

Re: I thought you could add to "Ready" orders?

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Technical Issues

In Technical Issues, Teup writes:

I've had the same issue. I found that sometimes it does create a batch, and
sometimes it creates a new order. Customers had this and I've also seen it
when I place an order myself. I've not yet been able to figure out exactly
the conditions. It seems random but there must be a cause.

Like you said, it's not the obvious things like a paid order or status
set to packed. Status Ready of Processing should simply allow batches to be added.
It's been like this for a couple months now. Didn't take the time to
report it, so thanks for bringing it up!

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Oct 21, 2021 15:33

Subject:

Re: PayPal fees...

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LANG Nederlands

In LANG Nederlands, TempleOfBricks writes:

Bedankt Teup
een Korting.. en/of coupon voor Iban betalers is een goed idee...
Zal even kijken hoe ik dat kan implementeren

Sommige verkopers hanteren namelijk geen kosten voor PayPal, als je een order
hebt van twee euro en je moet 0.35 transactiekosten betalen plus 3.4% afdragen
heeft het totaal geen zin.

Voor kleine bedragen kun je een extra PayPal account aanmaken en dan daarop het
Micro tariefschema aan laten zetten. Dat doe je door even contact met PayPal
op te nemen.

Je betaalt dan 5% (of 6% buiten EU) en dat lijkt meer, maar omdat de startfee
0,05 euro is ipv 0,35 scheelt het toch behoorlijk op die 2 euro orders. Bij betalingen
tot zo'n 15 euro is dat voordeliger. Kun je precies in excel uitrekenen,
is afhankelijk van je volume (je betaalt normaal 3,4% en op een gegeven moment
2,9% etc).

In BrickLink kun je beide accounts opgeven en ook vertellen tot welk bedrag je
het op micro wilt en wanneer op de normale.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 30, 2021 09:12

Subject:

Re: VAT Receipt

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In Help, patpendlego writes:

Here is an issue. I have not registered VAT ID because selling used items under
the margin regulation. However if I want to buy outside EU I would like BrickLink
NOT to charge VAT, but then I need to register VAT ID.

Is BrickLink going to support this situation?

As it is now, I need 2 accounts: one for selling (without VAT ID), and one for
buying (with VAT ID). But 2 accounts, it hat allowed? Afaik not. But might this
case be an exception?

FYI the whole buying with a VAT id is not working for me. It always charges me
VAT, so it looks like this isn't implemented either. Also the "receipt" with
VAT is also useless, as it states you cannot claim VAT back with it. The work-around
is both simple and annoying: order 150+ euro and they don't add VAT.

But long story short: Your second account, allowed or not, would be pretty much
useless

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 16, 2021 12:39

Subject:

Re: OSS registration

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Selling

In Selling, Stellar writes:

If you do it by hand, be careful with the Orders Download file. Some orders have
0.01€ up or down different to what the buyer actually paid. There is a bug somewhere.

The same issue is in the API, that has sometimes has a different amount compared
to the UI. It looks like all amounts that make up the total, are rounded first
in the UI and then everything is add up. The API seems to first add up and then
round. And yes, that make a difference.

Since I wrote this piece of (Typescript) code to calculate the order total, it
never went wrong again

calculateBrickLinkUiTotal(order) {
return this.round(order.disp_cost.subtotal)
+ this.round(order.disp_cost.shipping)
+ this.round(order.disp_cost.etc1)
+ this.round(order.disp_cost.etc2)
+ this.round(order.disp_cost.insurance)
- this.round(order.disp_cost.credit)
- this.round(order.disp_cost.coupon);
}

Easy to port to another language. Simply add/subtract all the mentioned fields.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 15, 2021 05:04

Subject:

Re: OSS registration

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Selling

When you register for OSS, "unieregeling" in dutch, it means you will be required
to submit a report every quarter for qualifying sales (and pay the corresponding
VAT). You can of course submit a 0-report, but you will have to report every
quarter. Exactly like the normal VAT procedures.

I don't think there is such a thing as a OSS id. In the confirmation letter
they say they registered my VAT id as a member of the "unieregeling" and tell
me to report every quarter via their site. That's it.

OSS is optional anyway, and if you don't use it, you will have to get a local
VAT id for every member state that you sell to. You can't enter all those
in BrickLink. Although it's safe to assume no one will want to register 27
times and file so many reports.

The real issue is: you still have to enter your VAT id and that has some static
consequences on BL: it removes VAT from prices outside EU and shows "including
VAT" while that might not be true for margin scheme products.

One way or the other, BrickLink should provide a few switches that can control
the VAT feature to make it more flexible.
- VAT on Used lots yes/no
- Use seller's VAT rate or Buyer's VAT rate
Etc

In Selling, Teup writes:

I wonder what happens when you register for the OSS. Does it mean that from that
point you are obligated to use it (ie. count VAT per country, at each
individual country's VAT rates), or does it mean you just have access
to that tax reporting environment?

I am asking because in the latter case, nobody needs to be "banned" unnecessarily.
Some sellers don't need to use the new system but Bricklink will say they
do (I am thinking about margin VAT sellers, and possibly sellers who sold over
the limit last year but will not do so this year). If they just register for
the OSS and provide the ID in their profile, they can continue to sell and they
can decide for themselves whether to use it or not.

Margin VAT sellers could just enter their VAT and OSS ID if Bricklink requires
it and continue to sell as before. The only real difference would be export out
of the EU, where the seller misses out on the full (19%-27%) VAT amount. They
could compensate by higher shipping rates though. Far from perfect but significantly
better than not being able to sell here at all.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 7, 2021 12:14

Subject:

Re: BrickLink and the new EU VAT e-commerce rules

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In Administrative, SylvainLS writes:

In Administrative, Stellar writes:

[…]
So... as a Business I can't buy anything for less than 150€ and reclaim that
VAT...?

As I understand it, as a business, you give BL your VAT-ID and you don’t pay
that VAT: read “en creux” (indirectly) the questions 10 and 11 on https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2518
“private buyers”
“non-VAT registered sellers in EU”

That's what I thought too. However, when I fill a cart at a shop from US,
still VAT is being added even though I have a VAT id in my account. So now indeed
I need to go over 150 euro, or buy within the EU. Not sure if this is a bug or
a feature

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 2, 2021 04:45

Subject:

Re: New EU Marketplace Tax Solution is Now Live

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In Administrative, legobasar writes:

Yesterday, July 1, I got an order from Poland, but in order details I still see
German, not Polish VAT: 19% instead of 23%. Isn't "EU Marketplace Tax Solution"
active?

Unfortunately this is not yet implemented.
See https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2517

Quote:
**If seller exceeds distance selling threshold of €10,000, seller must collect
VAT from buyer.
This will be implemented at a later date.

For now, it will still use the VAT percentage from the seller and you will have
to "fix" this in your own book keeping. Or stay below 10K, because then you can
still use domestic VAT percentage.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 2, 2021 04:36

Subject:

Re: NEW VAT changes 1st july

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As long as you do not sell both New and Used, this no problem. Simply enable
VAT if you sell only New (limitation is that it uses VAT percentage of the seller,
not of the buyer), and disable it when you sell only Used. In both your cases,
I would not enable VAT and just carry on as you did before. You will never hit
the 10K limit, as your revenue simply doesn't count towards it. The VAT you
handle outside of BL, as before. Basically you could say: no changes.

In General, bricks.steine writes:

Hello,

the same problem in Germany: Here it is called "Differenzbesteuerung". And according
to our law firm, the 10000 Euro do NOT apply for used goods at all. So similar
to the Dutch regulations.

Regards

Stefan

In General, Loonbricks writes:

Hello everyone,

Since the first of july (yesterday) we have had some big changes in the VAT collection
system in europe.

"Following the introduction on the new rules for online marketplaces, BrickLink
will enable its VAT collection for goods imported into the European Union (EU)
on July 1st to comply with the new EU VAT Marketplace rules."

(Everyone should have received this email from bricklink)
It basically means that once I sell over 10.000€ a year to EU countries i need
to pay my VAT in the country i ship to, not in my own country.

The problem is that the bricklink methodes for implementing VAT to your store
are far from perfect (as far as i can find out). In Holland we have a special
VAT rule called the 'Margin scheme' which means you are dealing in EXCLUSIVELY
purchased 2nd hand goods and do not settle any tax on purchases or sales, other
than the tax paid over your profit margin.

So the problem is, if i read this correctly in the bricklink email from the 29th
of june, When I am selling for more than €10.000 a year in europe I need to enable
VAT in my store, which means all my goods will be charged with 21%, the dutch
VAT rate, while all of my goods actually need to be charged with 0%, cause of
this special margin scheme tax regulation.

This is straight from the government tax website:

"If you sell goods that fall under the so-called margin scheme, these deliveries
do not count towards the threshold amount. If you apply the margin scheme, you
will owe Dutch VAT to the tax authorities on the profit margin of the goods.
You do not charge VAT to the customer and do not mention this on the invoice.
The VAT is included in your sales price."

At this moment I can not open my store cause once i hit 10.000€ in sales in europe
my VAT needs to be enabled and i will loose 17% of my income, which has nothing
to do with my business and the VAT regulation I am working in.

Is there anyone that has more information about this or any idea on what my options
are here?

At this moment I closed my shop to shield myself from potential problems, but
this is my full time job so I am without income as long as Bricklink does not
offer an option here.

It is possible that brickling does offer an option that I just don't know
off, this is why I am asking about it!

Thanks again for the help. I know I am not the only one with this issue and a
lot of my friends / colleages from holland would like to know this as well.

gr,
Kevin, Owner of Loonbricks.

PS, english is not my main language, I apologise for any misspelling or gramatical
errors.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 1, 2021 06:31

Subject:

Re: Nieuwe EU VAT e-commerce regels

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LANG Nederlands

In LANG Nederlands, Teup writes:

In LANG Nederlands, wpbremer writes:

Goedenavond allemaal,

is er iemand die mij in het kort kan vertellen welke wijzigingen ik al BTW plichtige
verkoper op BrickLink moet doorvoeren van 1 juli wanneer de nieuwe EU VAT e-commerce
regels ingaan?
Ik kom er met alle info helaas niet meer uit.

Alvast bedankt voor de moeite.
Groeten Wiebren

Hoe zit dit?

https://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=1278481

Moet je je dus ook aanmelden voor de unieregeling als je VORIG jaar boven
de limiet verkocht? Staat daar ergens iets over vermeld bij de Nederlandse belastingdienst?

Als ik de NL belasting site lees, dan gaat erom wat je verwacht. Als je omzet
aan EU landen vorig jaar 10K+ was, dan is het wellicht aannemelijk dat het dit
jaar weer zo is. Tenzij je situatie is veranderd en je daardoor verwacht onder
de 10K te blijven. Hetzelfde als je omzet 9K was en je door groei verwacht nu
wel 10K+ te komen, etc.

Zie:
https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/btw/content/e-commerce-en-diensten-in-de-eu-kijk-wat-er-verandert-voor-de-btw-x

Quote:
Verwacht u een omzet boven de € 10.000, dan berekent u de btw van het EU-land
waar u uw goederen of digitale diensten levert.

U mag voor uw btw-aangifte de nieuwe Unieregeling gebruiken. Dan kunt u binnen
het éénloketsysteem ieder kwartaal uw btw-melding (aangifte) en betaling in 1
keer afhandelen.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 1, 2021 06:04

Subject:

Re: New EU Marketplace Tax Solution is Now Live

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In Administrative, Teup writes:

In Administrative, Brick.Store writes:

Affected are all sellers in the EU that are over 10,000 €.

Although there's no excuse for it not working, as far as I can see it doesn't
need to be a serious problem, right? I mean, you already had to do your invoicing
outside of Bricklink (if only for the fact the invoice on Bricklink cannot include
an invoice number). So you can also apply the buyer country's VAT percentage
manually. So, the inc.VAT amount would remain the same for all EU buyers but
on the backend you charge a different VAT percentage.
Also, I think the sales up to July don't count for the limit, so you still
have some time to use the old system (if not the full remainder of this year,
and a part of next year if your book year starts in January).

This is exactly what I end up doing. Simply remove 21% dutch VAT for non-domestic
EU sales and readd the correct EU VAT myself. This means I'll lose a bit
on sales to countries with a higher VAT % and gain a little when the VAT % is
lower. At least then you can track sales with the correct VAT in your own book
keeping and report it at the end of the quarter.

OneStopShop is voluntary when below 10K but I already subscribed simply because
I don't want to have to start using all the different VAT percentages in
the middle of the quarter (when you're about to go over the threshold). And
when you already know you need to do it sooner or later, better do it from the
start.

So you need to work around it for now

Most likely automate it, as it's
not funny doing this manually.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 24, 2021 03:49

Subject:

Re: BrickLink and the new EU VAT e-commerce rules

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You mentioned the new law about VAT per EU country, but you did not mention the
most important part of it: Charging the VAT rate of the country of the buyer.
So, as the users have already pointed out, what they need is a system where they
as sellers can choose between A. charging the domestic VAT rate or B. charging
the VAT rate of the buyer's country - depending on whether their foreign
sales exceed 10K or not. I am assuming you are saying that this is coming, but
you didn't mention it explicitly, so maybe good to confirm that this is indeed
what's coming?

This EU VAT change has different angles. Let's focus here on the question
above, as I think it's a good one and relevant for every VAT enabled EU seller.

Given a VAT enabled store, that sells to buyers in the EU. What VAT percentage
is used? Currently, it is the VAT percentage of the country the seller is located
in. I'm located in NL, so it displays 21% VAT.

In the new situation we indeed have two options. Does BrickLink provide an option
to choose between the two? You should even be allowed to switch from 1 to 2 during
the year, as soon as you approach the 10K limit, aren't you?

The new options are:
1.EU sales excluding domestic are below 10K
Then I still need to do the same as today: charge 21% VAT to EU customers (based
on the VAT percentage of the sellers country). Report and pay to domestic tax
office, simple. No change.

2. EU sales excluding domestic are 10K or more
Now I need to charge the VAT % of the country of my buyer. Will BrickLink handle
this? So when I list an item for 1.00 euro, it will charge 1.19 to a German buyer
and 1.25 to a buyer from Croatia and 1.21 to a dutch buyer (etc etc).

As Russel mentions, either you register in every EU country you sell to (no one
will do that I guess) or you apply for the one-stop shop and do it in a single
country of choice. However, this should not make any difference for BrickLink.

About pricing:
Currently VAT enabled stores list their prices VAT inclusive. Do I understand
correctly we should reprice to prices excluding VAT?

So the example item that is now prices 1.21 will need to become 1.00. Is this
changed automatically when you release this update or do we need to do this manually?

What price will a buyer in the EU then see at a listing? It should be VAT inclusive
and not be simply added in the end.

Thanks for the info!

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 11, 2021 15:43

Subject:

Re: Notifications - Feedback

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You can do this via the API. It's technical stuff, not easy to use if you're
not familiar with these kind of systems. But definitely possible.

Register for the API here:
https://www.bricklink.com/v2/api/register_consumer.page

The 'call_back' url that you can specify, is a web url that BrickLink
will request when an order, message or feedback is received. On this page
you have your script that processes the request and does something. Like sending
an e-mail or updating something in your own system etc etc.

Details:
https://www.bricklink.com/v3/api.page?page=resource-representations-push

This is called 'push', because you have to do nothing to get it. You
can also 'pull' aka request it by calling the '/notifications'
endpoint. For this to work, you still need a call_back url, but it can be a webhook.site
url or something, that you then ignore.

I think ErwinNL on the forum has made a tool that can do this too.

Hope this helps!

In Help, Brickin_It_Up writes:

Anyone know if there is a way for us sellers to receive notification when we
receive feedback from our great customers? I know where the feedback can be found
if we manually go looking for it. Just wondering if anyone has figured out a
way to get a nudge when one comes in. Thanks!

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 2, 2021 17:34

Subject:

Re: New OSS : EU VAT changes from 1st of July

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In General, SylvainLS writes:

In General, Teup writes:

[…]
Yep, but the question is which rule will apply first. Is this new rule of exact
percentages for everybody, and the VAT exemption applying only domestically,
or do you first need to qualify as a VAT registered business in the first place,
and THEN you have to look at what exact percentages to levy? I am assuming the
latter - I think the rule is about making the percentages more precise rather
than making sellers be obligated to pay VAT more often. But yes, if it turns
out it's the other way around, it's going to be an odd side effect.

I eventually found this:

“Quelles entreprises sont concernées ?
Le guichet unique de TVA concerne tous les assujettis, quel que soit leur régime
d’imposition à la TVA : […]”
“Which businesses are concerned?
The VAT one-stop-shop concerns all taxable persons, regardless of their VAT regime”
https://www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/professionnel/suis-je-concerne-0

So one’d need to be “assujettis” (subjected / taxable) first (if you don’t apply
VAT, you’re “non assujettis”). Phew!

Why can’t the people who write these explanation articles really explain things?

Haha it's like a puzzle

On the site of the dutch chamber of commerce, I found that when you do not use
VAT (In NL the limit is 20K) but you do have 10K+ sales to EU consumers, you
will then need to use the tax system anyway and so the 20K limit is gone. Source
(in dutch) https://www.kvk.nl/advies-en-informatie/internationaal-ondernemen/e-commerce/btw-regels-voor-e-commerce-in-de-eu/

In this case, it's not possible to be liable for EU VAT and exempt for domestic
VAT. The reverse is possible, in case you stay below the 10K EU limit. But EU
VAT means also domestic VAT.

Quote:
When you make use of the small business scheme (KOR), you have an annual turnover
of less than 20,000 euros. By participating in the KOR you are exempt from VAT.
If you exceed the threshold of 10,000 euros in turnover in EU Member States other
than the Netherlands with your webshop, you become liable for VAT in the relevant
EU Member States. At that time, the VAT rules of the EU member state of your
consumer apply. The Dutch KOR will then no longer apply.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 2, 2021 17:18

Subject:

Re: New OSS : EU VAT changes from 1st of July

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In General, Stellar writes:

But which for North Ireland? UK 20% or Seller %?

United Kingdom 20

And what about Monaco?

https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/vat/eu-vat-rules-topic/territorial-status-eu-countries-certain-territories_en

There are special rules for Northern Ireland, from within the EU it should be
20% (based on UK VAT rate I guess) and then the code XI is used as if it were
an EU country. See https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/vat-news/brexit-northern-ireland-vat-and-eoro--xi--number.html

As for Monaco, I think that is part of the French VAT system so its 20% is used.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 1, 2021 09:55

Subject:

Re: New OSS : EU VAT changes from 1st of July

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In General, paulvdb writes:

In General, Teup writes:

Thanks! Will check it later. Does that solution require application? I thought
it would work just like the "kleine ondernemersregeling": you can just apply
it or not.. since I don't see any more info on it.. did I miss something?

In General, kaat writes:

FYI There was a webinar hosted by the dutch tax agency in April that has some
interesting details and explanations. It's in dutch though. See: https://channel.royalcast.com/belastingdienst/#!/belastingdienst/20210420_1

You might want to apply for the One-stop solution ("Unieregeling" in dutch).

According to https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/btw/content/e-commerce-en-diensten-in-de-eu-kijk-wat-er-verandert-voor-de-btw-x
you should continue to charge your customers 21% Dutch VAT if you sell less than
10000 EUR to other EU countries. You only have to register if you want to charge
the buyer's country's VAT rate.

You either register in every EU country (that you sell to) and submit VAT statements
to each of them. Or, you register in a single EU country of choice and use the
OneStop method, which is called "Unieregeling" in Dutch. For this you need to
apply via "Mijn Belastingdienst Zakelijk". Then, you submit all EU VAT related
things in one go (next to the domestic VAT, so you have more paperwork in any
case).

Do watch the webinar, it has several examples and I found it worth the hour and
a half it took.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 1, 2021 08:46

Subject:

Re: New OSS : EU VAT changes from 1st of July

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In General, paulvdb writes:

In General, Legondary writes:

From the 1st of July, when you operate an e-commerce business with generated
income of over 10.000€, you will need to charge the VAT rate of the country of
which you are selling to.

This is not entirely correct (or maybe a bit too simplified). If you sell more
than 10000 EUR to other EU countries you will have to charge the VAT rate of
the buyer's country. If you stay below the limit you may charge your own
country's VAT rate but you can voluntarily choose to charge the buyer's
country's VAT rate on all your sales.

Indeed. Also, it's 10K to consumers. A sale to a EU business does not count,
as these would normally be taxed at 0% via the reverse charge.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jun 1, 2021 08:43

Subject:

Re: New OSS : EU VAT changes from 1st of July

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In General, Legondary writes:

Hi,

Quick question to this group...

Apparently there are some changes to the EU VAT legislation with regards to E-commerce
or web shops.

From the 1st of July, when you operate an e-commerce business with generated
income of over 10.000€, you will need to charge the VAT rate of the country of
which you are selling to.

Eg. I sell over 10K€ per year. If I sell (based in Belgium) to France, I will
need to apply the French VAT rate on my order instead of the Belgian VAT rate.

Selling platforms like E-bay, Amazon, Bol.com and therefor in my opinion, BL
as well, will need to enable this way of invoicing.

Do any of you guys or girls know more about this?

I am including a link, if this is allowed?
https://business.trustedshops.nl/blog/btw-in-e-commerce
https://www.emerce.nl/achtergrond/nieuwe-btwregels-ecommerce-actiepunten-ondernemers

Kind regards,

Nick

Thanks for the headsup, didn't hear about this before. Will be interesting
to see how Bricklink is going to handle this one and if they manage to get it
done before July. It's also gonna require some work from the sellers to get
their administration organised per country.

For independent webshops this is going to be near impossible to implement in
the way it was intended - typically products just have a listing price and the
administration is calculated afterwards. The easiest way to accommodate the new
system, then, would be to simply count a higher ex-VAT price on the invoice for
countries with a lower VAT percentage, so that the listed prices remain constant.
Bottomline, nothing really changes, just more hassle for businesses, dealing
with dozens of figures instead of just one EU figure. No idea what they're
trying to gain with this.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Oct 9, 2020 12:48

Subject:

Re: Please show part numbers in Shopping Cart

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In Suggestions, Leftoverbricks writes:

The shopping cart while checking out shows a picture and description of
the part you want to buy, but no part number.
Please add the part number somewhere here.

Thank you.

+1 Makes it easier to double check before you submit the order.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Jul 31, 2020 05:53

Subject:

Re: Avoid orders from buyers with 0 fedback

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How should a new user get feedback if they cannot place orders?

You can go to settings, then click management. There is a setting "Show only
Instant Checkout methods to new buyers". That probably does what you want.

In Suggestions, fobya71 writes:

I think that everybody knows that in the last two years there was a lot of peaople
connecting with BL the first time.

I'm sure that most of them to nopt read the rules...

It is becaming quite common to receive orders from people with zero feedback
that after some days ask for order cancellation.

I think it would be great to have a function to avoid orders from people with
0feedback or at least having the possibility to approve or deny the order before
it became a registered order. It is quite frustrating to cancel orders after
some days and then restock everythink...

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Dec 24, 2019 14:41

Subject:

Re: Problem/bug with shipping minimum order

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In Suggestions, Teup writes:

In Suggestions, kaat writes:

Agree it makes no sense to set it lower than the store minimum buy (part 1 of
what you say).

However, it should not be completely removed (part 2 of what you say). For example,
I use this to offer free shipping from a certain order amount. So that's
not "without any side effects"

Well I didn't intend to remove it completely, just remove the (pointless)
rule that a shipping method MUST have a minimum order at least as high
as the store minimum. So, in your example you can still enter that minimum you
want. You are just no longer forced to enter a minimum value for a shipping method
if you don't want to. If you want, you can leave it on zero while your store
minimum is €10, so that "bypassers" are able to use the method. Or you can set
it to €10 so that they can't.

Ok clear, then we agree

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Dec 24, 2019 13:46

Subject:

Re: Problem/bug with shipping minimum order

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In Suggestions, Teup writes:

I've never quite understood why you are not allowed to set the minimum order
of a shipping method lower than the minimum order of your store. It's annoying
because if you have 10 shipping methods, then anytime you want to change your
minimum order, you need to also change it 10x in your shipping methods, for no
real reason, because the "master setting", the store minimum order value, should
determine it already.

However, it seems it's also causing another problem: Buyers can use the bypass
password to get around the minimum order, but it does not help them go
around the minimum order of the shipping methods. The result is that anytime
a buyer used the bypass password, they are able to order but unable to select
any shipping methods. So there will need to be a manual invoice.

I'd propose removing the restriction for shipping methods to have a minimum
order value that is higher than or equal to the store minimum order value - in
fact, I'd propose for shipping methods not to need a minimum value at all.
That should solve everything I described without any side effects.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Oct 20, 2018 15:26

Subject:

Inventory Change Request for Set 60204-1

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Inventories Requests (Entry)

Status:

Open

Please make changes to the following inventory:

60204-1 (Inv) City Hospital
808 Parts, 13 Minifigures, 2018
Sets: Town: City: Hospital

* Change 2 Part Red {44301 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 1 Finger On End (undetermined type) to 44301b Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 1 Finger On End without Bottom Groove}
* Change 2 Part Light Bluish Gray {44302 Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers on End (undetermined type) to 44302b Hinge Plate 1 x 2 Locking with 2 Fingers on End without Bottom Groove}

Comments from Submitter:
Remove undetermined, add type B instead as found in sealed set.

Author:

kaat

Posted:

Aug 19, 2017 13:38

Subject:

Re: Offsite payment no longer possible??

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