Unfortunately it's not that easy. The V.A.T. rate is charged dependant on the end customer, and in the Market situation Google is counted as a reseller not the end customer.
The last company I set up which sold software to the US without physical shipments (i.e. everything was a download) and had US resellers received it's first VAT inspection within 6 months of setting up. Everything was, of course, all legal and above board, so the there was no problem, but, as a small company, it's normally years before you get a VAT inspection. HMRC in the UK are pretty focused on this (especially with mobile phone related businesses) because of a type of fraud called Missing Trader Fraud (or a VAT carousel - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud). To carry the fraud out requires someone to run off with the cash at some point, but HMRC don't do risk assessments on smaller companies so they treat everyone as if they might get involved in a VAT carousel, and hence keep a close eye on companies doing VAT import/export. Al. bouvetloz...@gmail.com wrote: > Supposedly Google won't detail your income by countries, thus you > can't divide it including/excluding taxes, and of course you can't > issue individual invoices for your customers regarding to the 70% of > the net price. But strictly, you have only one business partner, > Google from US, probably it's a viable and simple interpretation. > > > -- ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
