We provide digital services to consumers in the EU. We therefore have to charge the rate of VAT applicable in the customer's own country.
When countries change their VAT rate it usually happens at midnight on New Years Eve which is the most annoying time for us to be changing our systems but hey what can you do.
More frustrating than that is that there is no definitive document or record of what the upcoming changes are going to be.
From what I can gather from various sites these are the proposed standard rate changes for Jan 1, 2020:
Croatia 25 -> 24
Greece 24 -> 22
Italy 22 -> 24.2
Lithuania 21 -> 18
Romania 19 -> 16
However, these are still listed as only 'proposals' and I guess might not happen. I'd rather not have to make the changes to our systems if they turn out not to be needed. We also need time to implement and test the changes.
Does anyone know if these changes are actually going to happen? How does everybody else manage this situation? Is there actually a plan of record that I just haven't found yet?
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