Despite all the efforts of the European Commission to combat VAT fraud, widely applied outdated national fraud-sensitive simplification rules for cross-border trade have remained untouched until today. Jan Sanders and Kevin Korevaar of PKF Netherlands open up the debate on the existence of the simplification rules and discuss what businesses currently considering or applying the simplification rules should do.
Source Bloombergtax
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