How to comply with the new TVA rules for B2C digital services?
I sell stock photography through a number of various online agencies. As the agencies sell my photos and then pay me a percentage of the sale fee I think this falls under a business to business classification.
My wedding photographs are also available for purchase by electronic download for my individual business to customer clients. As this is direct to the consumer I assume this is a business to customer classification.
There is an European Union law that as of Jan 1 2015 TVA is liable to be paid on sales of digital services for business to customer customers at the prevailing rate of TVA in the customers country. As each country has different rates of TVA and I am not TVA registered (my turnover does not currently require this) I am not sure how this is going to affect me.
I think this means that if I wished to continue selling digital downloads business to customer I would need to register for a TVA number even though I am under the threshold and don’t want to charge TVA as I would also need to move off the auto-entrepreneur statut? Can you confirm if this is actually the case for me?
Can you also confirm that this won’t affect my stock sales through the agencies as this is a business to business operation and therefore would this be OK to continue as normal?