Introduction.
Cross-border e-commerce (E-commerce) has been expanding worldwide with Amazon, eBay, Rakuten, Shopify, WooCommerce, and Corona Vortex, and is now the focus of attention by all companies. Cross-border e-commerce has been introduced with the positive aspects of being able to start selling within minutes of creating a site, and new sales opportunities from markets around the world. On the other hand, local taxes and various other costs are not shared much: local taxes such as VAT are levied and collected by the seller on the local buyer, but even in the case of cross-border e-commerce, there are cases of taxation, collection, and reporting.
Not all tax accountants, lawyers, and other domestic professionals have knowledge of overseas tax and legal affairs.
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Q] What is EC Sales Listing?
A] EC Sales Listings (EC Sales Listings or EU Sales Listings) are tax declarations for transactions between companies from different European Union member states. The opposite concept is EC Purchase Listings (EC Purchase Listings or EU Purchase Listings).
For example, if a German company sells goods to a French company, the German company must file an EC Sales Listing declaration and the French company must file an EC Purchase Listings declaration.
In addition to the EC Sales Listing declaration, there is also a statistical declaration called Intrastat declaration for transactions across EU member states.
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