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What is MOSS? Calculating VAT when selling electronic services

Want some special guidance on how to treat VAT correctly for your automated electronic service supplying businesses? No wonder, you have landed at the right page. Here you’ll find some detailed tips from expert tax accountants Melbourne, after which you’ll gain a deep understanding of various dynamics of VAT.

What’s VAT?

VAT stands for Value Added Tax. It is a kind of tax that is levied on goods and services while selling and purchasing process. However, VAT is also called GST in Australia (GST-stands for Goods and Services Tax). Nearly all types of goods and services come under VAT.
Hence, if your business is also operational in the field of supplying or selling electronic services, then it will be influenced positively by the scheme ‘MOSS’ (Mini One Stop Shop).

What is MOSS?

If you run a business on a small scale in which you provide electronically supplied services across E.U. country, and the burden of VAT appears annoying, then MOSS is definitely for the people like you. Value Added Tax: Mini One Stop Shop after being brought in E.U. countries on 1 January 2015 enabled sellers just to pay VAT to HRMC because earlier registering VAT in every E.U. country was essential.

But what are Electronically supplied services? How to be eligible for MOSS?

If you want to be eligible for MOSS, your digital services must meet the requirements. According to E.U. law for MOSS, a business should be operational in sectors, such as- telecommunication, e-services or broadcasting and irrespective to other business must be supplied directly to consumers. For example, a business that sells-
  1. Hosting services
  2. Delivery of services related to websites (E.G. CMS Systems, Website Creators, Ready Templates)
  3. Downloading and updating computer programs
  4. Subscriptions to electronic magazines and paid contents
  5. Music, Digital Gambling, Films, and Games,
  6. Political, Entertainment, Cultural, Scientific, and Sports Broadcasts transmitted electronically
  7. E-Learning and other services, like Internet Courses, E-Books and Webinars, etc. are eligible to reap the benefits of MOSS.
Your electronic products business must be operational and supplying these services; otherwise, you can go with VAT- the general rule for taxation.

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