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EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council Approves Further VAT Simplification Rules for Online Sales

|Proposed Changes|European Union
European Union

During its meeting on 9 November 2026, the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council approved measures to improve VAT collection on e-commerce sales into the EU (press release). In particular, the use of the digital VAT Import One Stop Shop (IOSS) by non-EU operators to account for VAT is expanded to the sale of all goods, instead of the current limit to goods valued under EUR 150. Further, the VAT IOSS is extended to cover e-commerce sales of goods stored in customs warehouses in the EU by …

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