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In some countries (Poland, Italy, France, Germany, more ?) there is need for monthly or quaterly VAT report with all sales and purchases. Reports can be separated per "Registry". Each registry contains separate type of transactions. E.G EU sales, EU buys, Non EU Buys, Non EU Sells.
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France VAT link there are many other languages links from this link, very interesting
Eu VAT specificities change language if you need
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unique bill number based on a chronological and continuous sequence | France | yes |
| Germany | yes |
Discounts Dicounts applied per line |
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Ofbiz supports invoice level discounts. This is not valid for VAT. For VAT, amount for each line must be known, so discounts | Poland | yes |
Germany | yes ? | |
| France | yes |
Rounding |
| In general it's applied per VAT rate, but without rounding that's the same. |
Important: rounding may only take place one time per VAT rate (after all calc. VAT amounts are summed up for that rate) | Germany | yes |
| France | yes |
| EU | yes? |
Exemption |
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Some products can have different tax rate when selling to different type of customer. E.g. In Poland flat/house renting is 0% for individual |
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Similar situtation in Germany: FastFood restaurants: take-a-way food has 7%, stay-here is 19%, usually handled via different products, too. |
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Has different VAT rates, for different type of goods |
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Official EU document Wikipedia (could be more updated than EU document) | UE EU | yes |
Food 0%, 7% others , 19% | Germany | yes |
2.1%, 5.5% 19.6% | France | yes |
Apply VAT for sales in INTERNAL_ORGANIZATION country Official EU document |
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| EU | yes |
Apply VAT for sales outside EU |
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Buyer may get VAT back from German Customs Auth. when he proves, that goods leave Germany (or EU?) | Germany | yes ? |
There are some exceptions with DOM-TOM (no metropolitan territories) and electricity. | France | no: goods |
| Poland | yes |
Apply VAT for sales outside INTERNAL_ORGANIZATION country && inside EU && with valid VAT ID (B2B) |
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INTERNAL_ORGANIZATION may have to proof that goods left Germany (for Tax Auth.) | Germany | no |
Found no such requirement in France but sounds weird | France | no |
In Poland there is also need for spedition document to have proof that goods left Poland | Poland | no |
Apply VAT for sales outside INTERNAL_ORGANIZATION country && inside EU && without valid VAT ID (B2C) |
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| Germany | yes |
| France | yes |
| Poland | yes |
Apply VAT for purchases like sales |
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| EU | yes |
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