Ecommerce tax: OSS and international
For high-volume and international ecommerce: OSS VAT and EU VAT in order, multi-marketplace operations and overseas warehouses under control, with reporting by channel and country and real margins.
Book an initial assessment meetingIs your ecommerce business local or international?
An ecommerce business selling in several countries and marketplaces faces taxation that has little to do with that of a local business: the OSS scheme, VAT in the EU, VIES, international warehouses, imports and multiple currencies. At ARRA Corporate we manage that complexity.
VAT and international
OSS, intra-EU VAT, VIES, imports and warehouses outside Spain, including Amazon FBA. All the international tax of your ecommerce business, sorted.
You declare VAT on all your sales to EU consumers in one place, applying the rate of each destination country: a single quarterly return in Spain, and the Spanish Tax Agency distributes it.
B2B sales between Member States, VAT registrations in other countries when OSS is not enough, and validation of each customer in VIES before invoicing without VAT.
Holding stock in another country requires you to register there, even if you sell through the OSS. Imports, exports and inventory movements between logistics centres.
Your stock determines the tax route
Two diagrams, one essential difference: selling abroad does not create the same obligation as storing goods abroad.
All stock is in Spain
One warehouse supplies consumers in several EU countries.
- ESSpain
- FRFrance
- DEGermany
- ITItaly
- PTPortugal
Covers B2C sales shipped from Spain to consumers in other EU countries.
Sales made within Spain are declared under Spanish domestic VAT.
Your stock is held in several countries
Each warehouse generates local sales and sales to other EU countries.
VAT is declared in the same country where the stock is held and the sale takes place.
Groups together B2C sales shipped from any of the warehouses to another Member State.
With stock in several countries, both obligations apply side by side: local VAT in each country and OSS for cross-border sales.
In one sentence: a warehouse in Spain generates Spanish VAT and OSS for sales abroad; having warehouses in other countries adds a local return in each country where you hold stock, while OSS continues to group cross-border sales.
The countries in the diagram are an example: the real map depends on where you sell and, above all, where you hold stock.
Platforms and data
It is not a list of integrations: it is making sure every sale, commission, refund and currency exchange ends up in the right place without anyone copying it by hand.
Sell in several countries without losing control of VAT.
Real margins by channel, country and marketplace.
OSS, EU VAT and multi-marketplace selling, under control.
Scale without losing visibility.
Decision and control
The overall figure is misleading: a channel can grow in sales while eroding margin, because commissions, logistics and returns do not show up in the selling price. Breaking the data down by channel, country and product turns revenue into a decision: where to invest, where to raise prices and where to pull out.
- Total
- Spain
- France
- GermanyEats into margin
- Italy
Power BI dashboards that break down the overall figure, with commissions and returns included.
Which product and which channel bring in margin, with no averages to hide it.
Traceability between platform, payment and tax return, documented from the source.
How we work
We put your international tax operations in order, connect the data from your platforms and turn it into reporting that tells you where you really make money. In that order.
Operational diagnosis
Where you sell, where you hold stock and what obligations you have today without knowing it.
Tax in order
OSS, VAT registrations and warehouses, regularised and on schedule.
Connected data
Platforms, payment gateways and accounting, integrated and automated.
Reporting and decision-making
Dashboard by channel and country, reviewed after every close.
What you get
International oversight
OSS VAT and EU VAT under control, with no nasty surprises from the Spanish Tax Agency.
Real margins
You know how much you earn per product, channel and country.
Connected data
Platforms and accounting, integrated and automated.
Less risk
Preparation for ecommerce inspections.
Scaling with visibility
You grow without losing control or margin.
Tell us where you sell and at what volume
With that, we can already tell you which obligations you have open, what can be simplified and what reporting you need so you don’t lose margin along the way.
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