Tax guide · Reverse charge and cross-border VAT

EU B2B services: VAT and invoicing

For EU B2B services, the place-of-supply rule drives the outcome, not the billing address alone. Keep business-status evidence, check exceptions and make the invoice, recapitulative reporting and accounting entry consistent.

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What to verify

  • Supplier, customer, VAT evidence and actual recipient

  • Supply type, movement and place-of-supply rule

  • Tax debtor, invoice wording, evidence and reporting

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Practical workflow

  1. 1

    Capture the decisive facts and select the correct jurisdiction and date.

  2. 2

    Resolve the time-valid rule and record its source, version and open questions.

  3. 3

    Align invoice, accounting, reporting and evidence; route uncertainty to review.

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Worked example

A German consultancy invoices a French company. VIES evidence, service description, reverse-charge wording and reporting treatment are aligned.

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Common mistakes

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    Deriving reverse charge from two country codes alone

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    Accepting a VAT number unrelated to the actual recipient

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    Missing place-of-supply exceptions or fixed establishments

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Invoice and accounting impact

The result should be represented consistently in the invoice, structured data, accounting, reporting and evidence. If a decisive fact changes, the decision is recalculated and the previous version remains in the audit trail.

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Legal basis and official sources

The page links to official primary sources. The actual decision is made by the versioned Dynafis rule set.