Overseas VAT registration responsibilities

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Overseas VAT registration responsibilities
The following transactions can be generated overseas through a registration liability, and the reverse charge system often allows your business customers to pay VAT on your behalf so you don’t need to register. So be careful if you provide such services:

Goods you imported or purchased overseas
Certain land or property related services, depending on the customer's VAT profile
Goods supply and installation
Entrance fees to conferences and events
VAT consultancy can assist with all of the above, so if you have any questions please contact us .

EU VAT registered UK suppliers
If you are a UK business that is VAT registered in the EU as a result of estonia phone number example providing some of the services listed above, you may find that you do not have to charge overseas VAT to domestic business customers in that country even though you are VAT registered there. In some countries, a domestic reverse charge applies, so the tax authorities prefer that VAT be paid by local established customers rather than for you to collect and pay VAT as an overseas supplier. This is different to the construction domestic reverse charge, and it is also different to the mainstream reverse charge for cross-border transactions listed above. If you are unsure whether this applies to your business, you should take VAT advice.



Reverse charges in international business transactions
Reverse charges are a very useful tool to stop unrecoverable foreign VAT costs incurred on cross-border transactions and also remove the need for multiple overseas VAT registrations. Care should be taken to ensure that reverse charges are taken into account and that your team is trained on how to manage reverse charges and identify the relevant transa