mikejolley/eu-vat-rates-for-digital-goods

A simple way to grab VAT rates for Digital Goods for all EU Member States in JSON format. Ideal for syncing with WooCommerce ;)

eu-vat-rates-for-digital-goods's Issues

Romanian VAT increase missing

Romania increased its VAT rate to 20% on the 1st of January 2016 as seen here: http://www.vatlive.com/vat-rates/european-vat-rates/eu-vat-rates/

Current format hides too much complexity, risks problems

Hi,

Looking at the data format, I guess that you began with the work of https://github.com/modmore/euvatrates.com/blob/master/rates.json .

However, I think both formats are still problematic.

modmore lists all the legal tax rates, but there's no information on which goods have which rate applied. So, you need to know that in Luxembourg, e-books get the 'super reduced rate'.

You've taken a different approach, and listed the e-book rate directly. But this is also problematic, because Luxembourg does not specifically have an "e-book rate": as listed in http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/resources/documents/taxation/vat/how_vat_works/rates/vat_rates_en.pdf, there are groups of rates, and then you need the extra knowledge of what kind of goods attract which rate.

I think it'd be better if the data could include both these pieces of information, so that consumers can have more flexibility and more closely match the legal setup. e.g.

"rates" : {
       "LU": {
            "country": "Luxembourg",
            "standard_rate": 15.00,
            "reduced_rate": 12.00,
            "reduced_rate_alt": 6.00,
            "super_reduced_rate": 3.00,
            "parking_rate": 12.00
        },
}
"rate-assignments": {
       "LU": {
            "ebooks": "super_reduced_rate"
       }
}

David

Missing data for Monaco, Isle of Man

Monaco (MC) and Isle of Man (IM) are separate countries, and have their own ISO country codes. The are, correctly, treated by WooCommerce as separate countries. However, Monaco is effectively part of France for VAT purposes (and so has the same VAT rates), and the Isle of Man, by agreement with the UK, has the same VAT rates.

Data needs adding for these two countries - presently, there is none.

Note that WooCommerce core itself makes this mistake at least 3 times. I have filed an issue for that also in the relevant place.

David