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OK, fair point. Yes it was fantastic and can't wait for the next time I go. Had the best steak ever in a little place you wouldn't even know was there if you didn't speak to the locals. Viva la France !

Lovely thank you. I went through immigration checks at Newhaven on the way out, at Dieppe on arrival and exactly the same again on the way back. No big deal and little delay so the argument of us leaving the EU making life difficult because of border checks is utter rubbish as they are already...

And it could also invoke the necessity of complying with PCI-DSS rules - a hugely technical and expensive overhead for small businesses.

If you're suggesting Paypal is ropey and 2-bit then you're suggesting the clearing house model they use which mirrors exactly that of the bank card system is also. The clearing houses don't know where you reside either yet every country in the world uses the system ..... including your beloved...

But the EU haven't got it right. As beorhthelm points out this hits small businesses disproportionately - those most affected will be hobbiests. Even if for a moment we assume the regulation is the correct thing to implement, it can only be a good one if it can be adhered to and policed. The...

Great post highlighting the sheer stupidity and incompetence of the EU.

Because micro digital businesses avoid tax on such a large scale that it dwarfs the likes of Google and Amazon ??

But you've made the assumption that no agreements like Norway or Switzerland have will be agreed. Therefore you nor I have any data.

IP addresses are only roughly geographical - use a proxy server and it will cause Paypal no end of difficulties. As usual the EU have issued a dictate without actually thinking it through.

The main issue for me is that the British parliament - i.e. that voted for the British public and the one answerable to the British public - has deemed £81k a reasonable figure before you have to worry about VAT. The EU - mostly unaccountable to the British public - has decided to overrule this...

I don't think you really need the question mark in the title. Time to leave. EDIT - and I occasionally sell digital items online and I'm buggered if I'm going to bother charging VAT.