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Old 02-28-2007, 01:16 PM  
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3) And this one is the kicker... Any NON-EU Company has to charge VAT to any private person from a EU Member State and pay that collected VAT to a EU Member State of their choice. The VAT Percentage to use in this case depends on the actual country the person lives in.

So, this means, a US company, in theory, has to pay the EU for example 21% of the money charged to any member that is from Belgium. Or 19% for any member that is in Germany or the Netherlands and so on...
BTW, I think you arenīt right so far. EU VAT laws - as far as I know - are related to the company base. So there is no VAT as long as a non EU based company sells goods or services to a private EU based customer.
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