Vat Variations By Country And Media

Multi-Vendor Questions
1

You manage an international marketplace with vendors from many countries all over the world. Some of them VAT-registered, others - not. For the sake of simplicity let's assume that all vendors are from European countries only. Different VAT rates for different types of products. Recently, EC allowed the EU-member countries to reduce the VAT for e-books.

Up till now, we had these VAT rates 

	Country	VAT	Books	e-Books
Europe	Albania	20	0	0
Europe	Austria	20	10	20
Europe	Belgium	21	6	21
Europe	Bulgaria20	20	20
Europe	Croatia	25	5	25
Europe	Cyprus	19	5	19
Europe	Czech Re21	10	21
Europe	Denmark	25	25	25
Europe	Estonia	20	9	20
Europe	Finland	24	10	24
Europe	France	20	5.5	5.5
Europe	Germany	19	7	19
Europe	Greece	23	6.5	23
Europe	Hungary	27	5	27
Europe	Iceland	24	11	11
Europe	Ireland	23	0	23
Europe	Italy	22	4	4
Europe	Latvia	21	12	21
Europe	Lithua  21	9	21
Europe	Luxemb. 17	3	17
Europe	Malta	18	5	18
Europe	Netherl.21	6	21
Europe	Norway	25	0	25
Europe	Poland	23	5	23
Europe	Portugal23	6	23
Europe	Romania	24	9	24
Europe	Russia	18	18	18
Europe	Serbia	20	10	10
Europe	Slovakia20	10	20
Europe	Slovenia22	9.5	22
Europe	Spain	21	4	21
Europe	Sweden	25	6	25
Europe	Switzerl.8	2.5	8
Europe	Turkey	18	8	8
Europe	UK	20	0	20
Europe	Ukraine	20	0	0

Currently, vendors have no means to define their VAT rates if they are not preset by the admin. But how to preset all these rates for all international vendors? Consider also the product variations - the paper book should be charged 10%, the e-book variant - 20%. This is not possible for a single product. Is it?

2

On the demo I was able to specify different taxes for different variations. So you should create corresponding locations and two taxes (VAT Books and VAT e-Books). Then just add corresponding rate for each location.

3

On the demo I was able to specify different taxes for different variations. So you should create corresponding locations and two taxes (VAT Books and VAT e-Books). Then just add corresponding rate for each location.

This works only if the vendors reside in one country. It will not work for vendors from country B where the tax rates are different. The only solution is to add a special tab Taxes in the Product editing menu and let the vendors define their local tax rates. Now they can only choose to apply or not to apply VAT. In the present context, I should create special VAT for each country and display all of them on the Product page for vendor to choose from which one to apply.

And there are different product option taxes for variations too, which are not addressed in the present version of MVE. I can create different VAT for books and e-books, but they will be applied to both variations, so double taxation will occur.

4

Please, vote for this

https://cscart.uservoice.com/forums/84333-multi-vendor/suggestions/35874205-vendor-s-tax-rates-per-product-type-and-location