{"id":546522,"date":"2015-01-21T12:50:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T12:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpml.org\/?p=546522"},"modified":"2015-01-21T13:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T13:35:35","slug":"vat-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/announcements\/2015\/01\/vat-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"VAT Charge Added for European Clients without VAT Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You might have noticed today, an unfortunate addition to WPML&#8217;s cost. Due to new regulations in the EU, we are required to collect VAT for WPML, when selling to individuals (without a VAT number) in the EU.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We realize that this increases the cost of WPML for some of you and we are not happy about this. The additional money isn&#8217;t going to us, but to the EU. We tried to avoid this, but the new regulations, which started a few days ago, are strict.<\/p>\n<p>No matter if we are in the EU or not, we have to add VAT when selling to EU customers without a VAT number. Besides the added cost, you can imagine that this is also complicating us, adding more engineering and bureaucracy (to report and pay VAT to the EU).<\/p>\n<p>The only thing left for us to do is to hope that EU countries will put this money to good use.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a business, registered in the EU and have a VAT number, be sure to enter it to our checkout page, so that we don&#8217;t have to charge you VAT.<\/p>\n<p>Questions? Ideas? Suggestions? Leave your comments and we&#8217;ll reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed today, an unfortunate addition to WPML&#8217;s cost. Due to new regulations in the EU, we are required to collect VAT for WPML, when selling to individuals (without a VAT number) in the EU. We realize that this increases the cost of WPML for some of you and we are not happy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546522"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546578,"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546522\/revisions\/546578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpml.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}