The European Commission announced, on Friday 30 June, that Member States collected €20 billion in value added tax (VAT) revenue by 2022, an increase of 26% compared to 2021.
The Commission attributes this increase to the new EU VAT rules for e-commerce introduced two years ago: the expanded ‘One Stop Shop’ (OSS) and the ‘Import One Stop Shop’ (see EUROPE B12753A2). These tools allow businesses to declare and transmit VAT in one Member State for all their sales of goods and...