I purchased a smartphone for euro 149 as offered by the seller. I asked for an invoice and it arrived for Euro 149 without VAT. The seller claims that the invoice must be issued without VAT. Granted, if he is right, then he should have invoiced me and collected only euro 122, that is, the amount excluding VAT. In fact, if I had been a private individual the problem would not have arisen: the seller would have given me a receipt for euro 149 and would have quietly paid the VAT to the tax authorit...

This is clear, except that it probably should have been defined before making the purchase.After payment, he simply followed the rules and issued an invoice under reverse charge for the full amount received.EBay was not conceived for B2B and, to avoid paying commissions on amounts not received, he should have made you a custom VAT-exempt listing and issued the invoice for that payment. himario

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