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Reporting VAT > EC sales
The information below is not an in-depth guide to EC trade. For more information, please refer to ‘VAT Notice 725 The Single Market’, available from your local VAT Business Advice Centre, or consult your accountant.
If your business is a UK VAT-registered company selling goods or services to anyone in another EC member state, you will normally charge VAT at a zero rate on the transaction if the sale is in line with intra-EC sales rules. These rules require that customers supply you with their VAT registration number.
This does not mean that the VAT on the transaction is ignored; it is accounted for in the VAT Return and EC Sales reports. EC customers also account for the VAT that would have been paid in adherence to the EC rules and legislation applicable in their state.
Before you can track sales made to EC customers, you need to set up a VAT code to assign to EC sales. No VAT amount will be tracked on the sale. The VAT rate and EC reported rate are set to zero per cent, as you are not collecting VAT on the sale.
This code should only be used when making a sale that conforms to HM Revenue & Customs rules governing intra-EC sales.
If you sell items to EC customers, you also need to set up your customer cards to report these sales in the EC Sales report.
To create a VAT code for EC sales
To set up customer cards for EC sales
Reporting carriage cost for sales to EC customers

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