mike wrote: ↑Sun Jan 24 2021 3:05pm
So British government advice to business on how to cope with Brexit is to sack UK workers and set up in the EU.
Businesses selling to consumers in the EU do need to register for VAT in the destination country.
That's different from setting up shop, but it's a whole lot of additional bureaucracy. We're currently in an interim state because there will be a different system in July. It seems HMRC hadn't quite been following their own advice to prepare.
Remember how one (former) member of this forum was concerned about how we would be infected with Italian-style bureaucracy if we remained in the EU? Well here we are, out of the EU, with lots more bureaucracy to do something that used to be easy.
And before he blames it on the dastardly bureaucrats in Brussels, it's just the same for EU-based suppliers selling into the UK.
Still, we've Taken Back Control. So it's worth it.