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Rules for online and distance selling for businesses
You must provide certain information if you’re selling goods or services…
As well as the rules for distance selling, there are extra rules for…
How online marketplaces will deal with VAT for goods from overseas that are sold to customers in the UK.
Find out how to work out what VAT to charge when goods are sold if you’re an online marketplace operator.
Find out your VAT obligations if you use an online marketplace to sell goods in the UK.
Find out if you need to pay VAT when you sell goods to customers in the UK using an online marketplace.
The Competition and Market Authority (CMA)'s work aims to tackle potentially harmful online selling practices.
How to charge and account for VAT on the movement of goods between Northern Ireland and EU member states (VAT Notice 725).
Restrictions during lockdowns impacted where we could spend our money, pushing up the proportion of online retail sales to an all-time high. This article analyses RSI, CHAPS, and Revolut data to explore what people were spending their money on from...
Latest sales figures for the Digital Marketplace.
Facts relating to e-commerce and web sales
Find out about the VAT place of supply rules if your business sells digital services to private consumers.
Find out how to report supplies of goods from Northern Ireland to VAT-registered customers in an EU country using an EC Sales List.
How sellers deal with VAT for goods from overseas that they sell direct to customers in the UK.
Consultation on an online sales tax to gather evidence and inform government policy on the proposal.
We're seeking your views on 2 European Commission proposals on the online and distance sale of tangible goods and supply of digital content.
The CMA is calling on the mattress firm to change its selling practices, which could be putting unfair pressure on customers to make quick purchases
The CMA is calling on Wowcher to change its selling practices, which could be putting unfair pressure on customers to make quick purchases.
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