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#1034
Originally Posted by IlkkaP View Post
No no no... you are confusing direct (e.g. income and capital) taxes and indirect (e.g. value added and sales) taxes. VAT is never paid twice, it is either paid in the country of origin or country of destination, but never in both countries. Inside EU VAT area when selling to a private person, VAT is paid in the country of origin (in Jolla's case Finland), and when selling to outside of EU VAT area, it is paid in the country of destination.
This is correct. However outside EU VAT area, the destination country doesn't care at all if the VAT was paid in EU or not, they're always going to charge you with the local tax and it's the consumer's responsibility to ensure that the purchase price did not include VAT of the origin country.
 

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