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Will Laurenson March 17, 2025 at 08:41 AM

@Niko Croskery thats a HUGE fee for something that the vast majority of people wouldnt care about. As a business, you need to track VAT so you can pay it (and also youd want to be able to claim back when you get charged it as well).

But for consumers, no-one needs it, no-one cares. the only time you'd really need to provide one is someone buying for a business and they want to claim it back, in which case they can just request it and you just provide a breakdown somehow (manually if you have to, itll be 0.000001% of your orders).

Now, this isn't legal advice of course, but if i look at my own purchases from Amazon, they dont give me a VAT breakdown in the email, but i can download one from my recent orders if i want to - so it looks like you dont need to actively provide this to customers upon purchase

Niko Croskery March 19, 2025 at 12:04 AM

Yes. Legal requirement though to make a VAT invoice available to a customer if requested though. If anyone's interested we ended up going with https://apps.shopify.com/simplio-simple-invoice which is free for up to 50 invoices per month