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Are you selling to consumers or companies? If companies: they need to pay taxes: not your legal risks but you be wise to warn them. If consumers they need to declare it or the service or good can be confiscated.

None of this is fishy.. it works like this between all Western nations and all other modern economies. And if you find a country that is an exception that that would be a huge bussiness opportunity for every one just moving profits that way.

There was actually a way to do this. Cheat your way out of VAT. But its a complicated trick only companies like Apple and IKEA use and that trick is under full attack by both the US and EU government.



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