Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller pisze:
I work for a company that want to purchase 3 handsets (including
2 adv boxes) but in the registration form there's no place for
our tax ID number. Does anybody know how can we receive an
invoice for these phones, so we can exclude costs from our tax?
I guess since they send from the US to the EU, there is no VAT
charged by the US tax authorities you could ask to get back.
It is not the point to get VAT back but to indicate what these
devices came from. I will pay with company's money so it should be
endicated where did this money go and what for. And that what the
invoice is for. If they won't write our tax id number on it, the
invoice will be invalid.
Ah I see. But what I recommend is to check if that is also required
for imports from the US or if this rule is for local business only
(within one country). I have never been asked to specify my VAT ID
for any purchase (unless I want to have taxfree intra-community
delivery).
And there is always the address of the origin written on the invoice
- which is the US. So you have a proof where it came from. Your tax
id written on the invoice wouldn't help IMHO.
For German Taxation rules they just must write their name, the
country of origin and the money amount and what they did deliver "1
unit OpenMoko". But not my tax ID - because I as the receiver don't
necessarily have one. And for your import you will also get a
separate receipt for any import duties you will have to pay.
They must only write my VAT ID if they would be shipping from
*within* the EU *and* doing an "intracommunity tax free delivery".
But they ship from the US into the EU so IMHO this rule does not apply.
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