You are supposed to bear the cost of upgrading them.
Rachel
I came across an article by an indie game developer today who is halting sales until itch.io, the platform he sells on, supports VAT MOSS.
http://bytten.net/devlog//2014/12/27/temporarily-halting-purchases/
He mentioned something else I hadnāt heard of before:
On top of that (if I understand correctly), when I display the price of the game, advertising laws mean I have to include the VAT rate in the price advertisedā¦ which depends on knowing the place of supply before taking that information from you!
Apparently some UK hotel chains were slammed for not showing prices inclusive of VAT a couple of years ago:
Yes if you sell āmostly to consumersā which a game would be, then you are supposed to display prices inclusive of VAT. I think the end result however of this change is that for online sales at least weāll end up going the way of the USA and displaying prices without tax.
I bought your side-project book yesterday - your home rolled VAT invoices arenāt compliant with HMRC rules as far as I understand them.
Specifically you can invoice in whatever currency you like, but you have to show VAT in Sterling.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/foreign-currency-transactions-vat-and-tour-operators
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/vatrecmanual/vatrec5060.htm
Could be my understanding is wrong though!
Are you talking about SendOwlās invoices when you say āhome rolledā? Otherwise Iām not sure which invoices you mean!
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Me bad - I assumed that you used the same system you created for Perch for the e-books. See its sendowl now!
For those in the UK - what steps are you taking now that, post Brexit, HMRC are closing its MOSS?
Looks like we need to decide soon; if registering with the non-Union MOSS scheme at one of the member states we have to do it within ten days of your first sale (in the EU).
Some notes on re-registering.
There has been a ā¬10,000 threshold on EU VAT registration since 2019, but I donāt think this applies to non-Union members, so your luck is out if you used to rely on that.
SEPA is still in place post-Brexit - this makes fund transfer much cheaper than a normal international transfer. For example, HSBC charge 24p per SEPA transfer, and Ā£17 for a standard international transfer!
Ireland is an obvious place to register for an English speaker. Iāve registered there.
(An obvious final option is to simply not bother in registeringā¦ Iām guessing a lot of people do this)
Pretty much all my EU sales come through 2Checkout/Avangate. So I am relying on them to sort out the VAT.
I registered for MOSS with the Ireland tax authority as well. Super easy to do, although Iāve not filed any reports yetā¦