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| It used to be, but when I was doing work for a German company, that from the UK you'd not include VAT but rather the VAT fell on the client.The client would pay the VAT speparately. The UK invoices contained no VAT. | |
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If both the UK and Germany were in the EU single market then, that's irrelevant.
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| These days there are special rules for *some* electronic services. Best to google it. | |
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Those rules do not cover consultancy nor bespoke programming on the clients system. At least, that was the case not very many years ago.
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| Hello everyone,
A friend has a Swiss company. He needs to hire a consultant to do some work from the UK for one of his UK clients.
His accountant said that he could sign a consultancy agreement but to include a VAT for "import of services."
The accountant didn't explain how to do it, but it sounds like my friend has to pay an additional charge to "import" consultancy services from the UK?
Has anyone dealt with a similar situation??
Many thanks! | |
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UK consultant invoices UK client, with VAT (assuming the UK consultant or his company is VAT registered). E.g. £10000 + £2000
Your friend invoices UK consultant, no MWST. £10000 (or whatever in CHF). That's pretty sure, unless the rules have changed in the three years since I last did it.
If your friend insists on invoicing the UK client directly. then:
Friend invoices UK client.
UK consultant invoices friend's company.
I've no idea what the VAT rules are for that. Maybe again, since the invoices are (currently) non-EU to EU.