WooCommerce EU VAT Assistant

Name: WooCommerce EU VAT Assistant
SKU: WC-EUVATAssistant
Rating: 5.00 (1 reviews)

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The EU VAT Assistant plugin is a free, premium quality plugin, which extends the standard WooCommerce sale process and calculates the VAT due under the new regime, starting on the 1st of January 2015. The information gathered by the plugin can then be used to prepare VAT reports, which will help filing the necessary VAT/MOSS returns. This product also includes advanced features, such as EU VAT number validation, customer’s self-certification of address, automatic update of exchange rates for VAT reports and more.

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Important: the Aelia EU VAT Assistant reached its end of life on the 30th of June 2022

As indicated in our press release from January 2022, the Aelia EU VAT Assistant reached its end of life on the 30th of June. The plugin is still available from the WordPress repository, it’s fully functional and compatible with the latest version of WooCommerce, but it’s no longer being actively developed. Due to that, we won’t be able to provide assistance for it, nor guarantee the release of new versions or implement new features.

You can find more information about the EU VAT Assistant, as well as the recommended alternative solution, in our original announcement: VAT OSS Compliance – From Aelia EU VAT Assistant to Simba Hosting’s WooCommerce EU/UK VAT/IVA Compliance.

Aelia EU VAT Assistant for WooCommerce and the VAT MOSS regulations

EU VAT Assistant for WooCommerce is designed to help achieving compliance with the new European VAT regulations, coming into effect on the 1st of January 2015. Starting from that date, digital goods sold to consumers in the European Union are liable to EU VAT, no matter where the seller is located. The VAT rate to apply to each sale is the one charged in the country of consumption, i.e. where the customer resides. These new rules apply to worldwide sellers, whether resident in the European Union or not, who sell their products to EU customers. For more information: EU: 2015 Place of Supply Changes – Mini One-Stop-Shop.

The EU VAT Assistant is available free of charge, from the following link: Download the EU VAT Assistant for WooCommerce.

Should you have any questions about this product, please feel free to contact us.

Have you bought a support plan for the EU VAT Assistant? We’ve got you covered!

If you already bought a paid support plan for the EU VAT Assistant, we will keep providing our premium support service for the remainder of the covered period. The premium support service will keep covering the following:

Assistance for the configuration of the EU VAT Assistant.
Installation issues.
Advanced troubleshooting of issues, such as in-depth investigation and reviews of the data stored in the database.
Bug fixes.

The paid support plan doesn’t cover customisations, such as integration with other plugins, development of custom features, customisation of invoices. If you need that service, you can request an estimate by posting a project on the Codeable platform: https://aelia.co/hire_us. Posting the project is free of charge. We will then review your requirements, discuss them with you and send you our estimate for its implementation.

How it works

The EU VAT Assistant plugin extends the standard WooCommerce sale process and calculates the VAT due under the new regime. The information gathered by the plugin can then be used to prepare VAT reports, which will help filing the necessary VAT/MOSS returns.

The EU VAT Assistant plugin also records details about each sale, to prove that the correct VAT rate was applied. This is done to comply with the new rules, which require that at least two pieces of non contradictory evidence must be gathered, for each sale, as a proof of customer’s location. The evidence is saved automatically against each new order, from the moment the EU VAT compliance plugin is activated.

In addition to the above, the plugin includes powerful features to minimise the effort required to achieve compliance, such as the validation of EU VAT numbers for B2B sales, support for customer’s self-certification of location, automatic update of exchange rates, etc.

New releases are announced on our site, on our Twitter account and on our Facebook page. We recommend following at least one channel, to stay up to date about new features and bug fixes.

Fully compatible with our WooCommerce plugins

Collects and stores the VAT amounts automatically, for each order

Collects the evidence required by the new regulations, to prove that the correct VAT rate was applied. The plugin can automatically detect customer’s location, thus gathering one of the approved pieces of evidence

Accepts and validates EU VAT numbers, applying VAT exemption when appropriate. Validation of European VAT numbers is performed via the official VIES service, provided by the European Commission. This feature is equivalent to the one provided by the EU VAT Number plugin

Allows to collect a self-certification from the customer, when insufficient evidence is available to prove his/her location

Supports a dedicated VAT currency, which is used to generate the reports. You can sell in any currency you like, the EU VAT Assistant plugin will take care of converting the VAT amounts to the currency you will use to file your returns

Automatically updates the exchange rates that are be used to produce the VAT reports in the selected VAT currency. The plugin can fetch exchange rates from the following providers:

European Central Bank
HM Revenue and Customs service (United Kingdom)
Irish Revenue (experimental)
Danish National Bank
Bitpay

Automatically populates the VAT rates for all EU countries in WooCommerce Tax Settings

Compatible with the WooCommerce Subscriptions plugin

Includes function for integration with PDF Invoices and Packing Slips plugin and other PDF Invoice plugins, to simplify the creation of EU VAT-compliant invoices

Includes comprehensive reports, simplifying tax returns:

VAT MOSS
Domestic VAT
INTRASTAT
VIES

Disclaimer

This product has been designed to help you fulfil the requirements of the following new EU VAT regulations:

Identify customers’ location.
Collect at least two non-contradictory pieces of evidence about the determined location.
Apply the correct VAT rate.
Ensure that VAT numbers used for B2B transactions are valid before applying VAT exemption.
Collect all the data required to prepare VAT returns.

We cannot, however, give any legal guarantee that the features provided by this product will be sufficient for you to be fully compliant. By using this product, you declare that you understand and agree that we cannot take any responsibility for errors, omissions or any non-compliance arising from the use of this plugin, alone or together with other products, plugins, themes, extensions or services. It will be your responsibility to check the data produced by this product and file accurate VAT returns on time with your Revenue authority. For more information, please refer to our terms and conditions of sale and support.

The EU VAT Assistant is available free of charge, from the following link: Download the EU VAT Assistant for WooCommerce. On this page you can buy full access to our top class premium support service.

Should you have any questions about this product, please feel free to contact us.

Pricing

The EU VAT Assistant is available, free of charge, from WordPress.org. If you need support, please refer to the support section.

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Plugin Details

Product details

Version: 2.1.15.240807

Last Updated: 12/08/2024

Tested up to

WordPress: 6.5.9

Requirements

WordPress 4.0 or newer.
PHP 7.1 or newer.
WooCommerce 3.5 or newer.
Aelia Foundation Classes framework 2.1.0.201112 or newer.

Change Log

Change log

Below you can find the change log for the most recent releases of the plugin. Should you need information about this product, please feel free to contact us.

2.1.15.240807

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 9.2.

2.1.14.240709

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 9.1.

2.1.13.240606

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 9.0.

2.1.12.240514

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.9.

2.1.11.240414

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.8.

2.1.10.240307

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.7.
Declared compatibility with WordPress 6.5.9.

2.1.9.240205

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.6.

2.1.8.240109

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.5.

2.1.7.231213

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.4.

2.1.6.231102

Declared compatibility with WooCommerce 8.3.
Declared compatibility with WordPress 6.4.x.

Reviews

1 review for WooCommerce EU VAT Assistant

Rated 5 out of 5
Adri Oosterwijk – 15/04/2017
As far as I can tell right now, this is absolutely the best solution available. I was using uther solutions until now but when I came across this plugin I downloaded it and it works superb!
Great job! I couldn’t rate it for only 5 start but I’ll give it a 23 when possible.

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