Tax guide · Reverse charge and cross-border VAT

Intra-Community supply: conditions and evidence

An exempt intra-Community supply requires more than two EU addresses. Actual movement, customer status, VAT number, transport evidence, invoice and reporting must form one consistent evidence chain.

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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

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

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    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.

03

Worked example

A German seller ships goods to its customer’s warehouse in Poland. Transport evidence and the customer VAT number are linked to the order before exemption is applied.

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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.