I am based in Switzerland and I don’t have a VAT number and don’t need to add sales tax to my local orders, and until December Etsy didn’t add it. In January Etsy started to calculate sales tax on my Swiss orders and Etsy support doesn’t seem to understand the problem. Anyone else from Switzerland has the same issue and got help? Thanks!
I am also based in Switzerland and all my prices seems to be completely screwed up lately. For example; my listing price for an item is 227, then the item shows up on Etsy with the much, very strange, higher price of 245.39.
that’s exactly the same problem - it’s 8.1% VAT that they started to add regardless of company status.
I have also dropped this question with Etsy Help, but while searching the internet I've found this below:
New E-commerce VAT Rules in Switzerland
(I had to post the article in 2 sections)
Also in CH - I had assumed these new rules were affecting everyone, local or otherwise-will have check in more detail - thx for the heads up. They are charging my local swiss buyers vat tax as well. Do you know which government authority is responsible for e-commerce at the federal level? I am also wanting to find out about forced offsite ad for CH shops.
no, I don’t. I have seen there is a new law because there was a message on auction platform, they say they will collect Vat but only for those who are in fact Vat payers, depending on company status. but it seems Etsy just applied it to everyone…
@CeramiLu As far as I understand it, it's about the platforms (Etsy as a whole) and not about the individual seller
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as a VAT registered platform
For Switzerland, etsy will now collect the VAT against their VAT number, and repay to switzerland
you will see the vVAT amount added, AND deducted from your csv