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UK businesses: Accounting options for VAT MOSS post-Brexit?

4 points by grangerts ↗ HN
We're a UK based company that sells subscription software, and we have customers worldwide. We can't be the only UK company dealing with VAT MOSS post-Brexit, and yet I've struggled to find much discussion about this online. Post-Brexit, the accounting software we use no longer provides the VAT MOSS report, and all of our EU sales were included in our UK VAT return. A huge mess. When I asked our accounting software about it, they provided a sort-of solution that would involve us setting up a new separate account with them just for the EU sales. I've checked a few other accounting softwares, and they all seem to offer the same kind of solution. Surely there must be a better way?? What are other UK businesses doing? We can't be the only ones dealing with this...

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mytailorisrich
I suppose this is because you now need 2 VAT registrations: a British one for sales within the UK and a EU one for sales within the EU (you can register for VAT MOSS in any EU member state).
grangerts
That's taken care of - I knew we'd need to register using the non-union VAT MOSS scheme, so I sorted that straight away. What I wasn't expecting was that VAT MOSS would no longer be supported within the accounting software. What I've found is that all the accounting softwares I've looked at only allow you to have one VAT registration per account, so we'd need to have two separate accounts: one for EU sales, and another for everything else.