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[Martin van Dijken]

Hey all,

After receiving my certification from Per, I am now every excited to get started on my first workshop. I ordered 10 starter kits and a box of exploration kits from the Lego online store. It has been shipped, so happy about that.

Question though: how does it work with VAT? There is no VAT mentioned on the invoice and I can’t even tell where the stuff is coming from. Does anybody know if it is possible to get VAT back?

Look forward to hearing from you,

Martin

[Martin van Dijken]

Ah, 1 question sort of answered. I just received an invoice from Lego Denmark. The strange thing is that the invoice is in Dutch, with the Dutch VAT percentage (21%, DK apparently has 25%) and the bank that is listed is a Dutch bank.

Getting more and more confused :-)

[Marko Rillo]

Martin – did you manage to clarify the VAT issue? I believe that inside EU you should be able to import/export according to uniform rules whereby the tax is calculated based on the rules of the target country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_value_added_tax#Intra-Community_acquisition

However, LEGO may have its branches in many countries across Europe and may resort to choose which of the countries they are selling the goods to you.

[Martin van Dijken]

I’m not 100% certain it’s resolved, but I simply put this receipt into my tax deduction forms and tried it. I’ll know in a year from now whether it was accepted ;-)

I think it should be ok, it looks a lot like a Dutch invoice, has the right VAT % etc. Should be fine…

Thanks

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