The German legislator has introduced a reverse charge procedure for telecommunication services provided to a company that is itself a reseller of such services (new sec. 13b para. 2 no. 12 of the German VAT Act). The aim is to avoid fraud schemes and the idea came via so-called Voice over IP (= VoIP) systems.
Source: dlapiper.com
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