Value-Added Tax Consolidation Act 2010

F234[Electronic interfaces facilitating distance sales of goods

91G

91G.(1) (a) Where a taxable person facilitates (within the meaning of Article 5b of the Implementing Regulation), through the use of an electronic interface such as a marketplace, platform, portal or similar means, the distance sale of goods imported from third territories or third countries in consignments of an intrinsic value which does not exceed €150, the taxable person shall be deemed to have received and supplied those goods himself or herself.

(b) Where a taxable person facilitates (within the meaning aforesaid), through the use of an electronic interface such as a marketplace, platform, portal or similar means, the supply of goods within the Community by a taxable person not established within the Community to a non-taxable person, the taxable person who facilitates the supply shall be deemed to have received and supplied those goods himself or herself.

(2) Where a taxable person is deemed, by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be, of subsection (1), to have received and supplied goods, the dispatch or transport of the goods shall be ascribed to the supply made by that taxable person.

(3) Where a taxable person is the deemed supplier of the goods concerned by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be, of subsection (1), such taxable person shall—

(a) keep records of all transactions which are facilitated (within the meaning of subsection (1) through the use of the electronic interface and those records shall be sufficiently detailed, in accordance with Article 54c(1) of the Implementing Regulation, to enable the Member State in which the transactions are taxable to verify that the VAT return is correct,

(b) make such records available, by electronic means and on request, to the Revenue Commissioners, and

(c) make such records available, by electronic means and on request, to the relevant Member State in which the transactions are taxable.

(4) A taxable person who facilitates (within the meaning of Article 54b of the Implementing Regulation) the supply of goods and services through the use of an electronic interface such as a marketplace, platform, portal or similar means to a non-taxable person within the Community in accordance with Title V of the VAT Directive where the taxable person is neither—

(a) presumed to be acting in his or her own name for the supply of services under Article 9a of the Implementing Regulation, nor

(b) deemed to have supplied the goods by virtue of paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be, of subsection (1), shall—

(i) keep records of all transactions which are facilitated (within the meaning aforesaid) through the use of the electronic interface and those records shall be sufficiently detailed, in accordance with Article 54c(2) of the Implementing Regulation, to enable the Member State in which the transactions are taxable to verify that the VAT return is correct,

(ii) make such records available, by electronic means and on request, to the Revenue Commissioners,

(iii) make such records available, by electronic means and on request, to the relevant Member State in which the transactions are taxable, and

(iv) notwithstanding section 84, retain such records for each transaction until the expiry of a period of 10 years from 31 December of the year during which the transaction was carried out.]

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F234

Inserted (1.07.2021) by European Union (Value-Added Tax) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 327 of 2021), reg. 22, in effect as per reg. 2.