Hello, I hope you're well, this morning not much in the news, but I didn't have time to give you this post on VAT. Note that the latter represents 32 billion lost revenue for the state per year (which we of course fully compensate with our taxes). But if you want to recover money, there are also other avenues, in particular the quasi-mafias and their rigged public markets. Or social fraud with one in two pensions paid to a person born abroad..... (further information).
Since it's even the subject of books, all this is known then (perhaps not enough), but why is nothing happening?
In the meantime, we are the ones who are bludgeoned with taxes, direct, indirect, etc.
The icing on the cake when we pay full price, with the gifts we make to employers, On doesn't even have hospitals anymore, moreover always on the Europe orders (as for 20 years), they have still closed 1800 beds in the last 3 months
And with the 'famous' Recovery plan European, we are going to have to apply even more the Gopes...
As a result, the current health policy, pension reform, dismantling of EDF (to name a few)... so it's not about to get better....
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E-COMMERCE – Since Thursday, the 20% VAT on purchases via online platforms applies regardless of their price, when packages are sent from non-European countries.
Shopping online will now cost more in some cases: since 1er July, the State applies a 20% tax on small orders placed on online sales platforms and sent from a country outside the European Union.
A turning point for the regulation of Internet commerce, since until then, sites that are not domiciled on European soil (such as eBay, Amazon or Alibaba) did not pay this percentage of VAT, value added tax, only for orders over 22 euros. This ceiling is now lifted: the tax will apply regardless of the price of the package.
It is in application of a European directive of 2017 that the exemption enjoyed by these platforms is removed. This privilege encouraged unfair competition and constituted a significant loss of revenue for the States.
Seven billion shortfall for state coffers
A report by the General Inspectorate of Finance, published in 2019, argued that 98% of sellers on e-commerce sites are not registered for VAT in France, most of them being located in China. Consequence: fraud, estimated at seven billion euros per year in lost revenue for the Member States of the European Union, according to an assessment by the European Commission.
This decision is all the more awaited by the tax administration as the activity of online sales platforms has jumped since the start of the health crisis. It is also an opportunity for the State to fight against fraudulent practices and embezzlement. “We face competition from sellers, particularly in China, who charge knockdown prices without charging VAT and often split shipments to avoid tax”, indicated the Ministry of the Economy to the Le Parisien.
A tax to be paid directly online or upon receipt of the package
Concretely, how will this tax be implemented? For the consumer, nothing or almost nothing changes, since the tax will be invoiced directly on the merchant site or by the carrier. Indeed, the payment of VAT may be claimed from you at the time of delivery if it has not been paid at the time of purchase on the website.
On the side of the platforms, on the other hand, a turning point has been taken: they will thus be assimilated to suppliers of goods and no longer only considered as interfaces for establishing relations between a seller and a buyer. To support this change, a "one-stop shop" will be created, on which sellers and sites can register to fulfill their VAT obligations.
"This will greatly simplify the life of European sellers, thousands of SMEs who use marketplaces to sell in Europe and who will have a single declaration window for the whole European Union", explained to AFP Luca Cassina, executive vice-president of Mirakl, a French specialist in software solutions for online marketplaces.
source: LCI.fr
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