Hi, an example to clarify. If you have a ecommerce in Italy and you sell a product to other EU country (for example Germany), there are 2 possibilities:
(If a product cost 100€ + 22% VAT)
- the buyer does not have a VAT number, the TAX calculation don't change = product price 122€
- the buyer have a VAT number (it's a company), if the VAT number is registered in the VIES system (e-commerce does NOT have to do real-time checks) and it's from other EU country, the buyer does not pay VAT = product price 100€
The simplest solution is to insert a checkbox that asks the customer if he has a valid VIES VAT number. If the buyer select the checkbox and enter a VAT number, he will pay the price of the product without VAT taxes.
Please it's urgent, i ask this 2 months ago.
Best regards
Francesco