Originally Posted by faxxaff

Yeah, I understand your kind effort .... but I am not convinced that a US internet service provider with US billing and hosting is conducting business in the EU. He is not sending anything to the EU, but the customer from the EU is virtually going to the US to look at his stuff ... just my logic.
I know a few foreign companies who ship hard goods to the Eu. They have VAT registered because it is in their benefit as they can claim back VAT, but I have not heard of any US internet company charging VAT for European customers. I am pretty sure that large US hosts like The Planet make more than 10k Euro a month from EU customers, but they never ask for VAT info and they never charge VAT for EU customers.