Tax guide · Reverse charge and cross-border VAT

Invoicing customers outside the EU

“Outside the EU” is not one VAT rule. Goods and services, business or consumer status, use and enjoyment, export evidence and potential local registrations must be assessed separately.

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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

02

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.

03

Worked example

A consultancy invoices a US company while a merchant exports goods to Switzerland. The two cases require different evidence and invoice treatment.

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04

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

05

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.

06

Legal basis and official sources

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