VAT Compliance for E-Commerce

Full Access to the EU Market

With half a billion consumers, the EU market represents huge growth options for e-commerce companies. Maximize this potential through a seamless B2C service with fast delivery and no unexpected customer VAT charges.

Sovos Compliance Services Portal for e-commerce allows easy access to all simplified EU VAT reporting schemes:

IOSS (Import One-Stop-Shop)

  • Simple customs clearance
  • VAT collected at point of purchase
  • Reclaim VAT on returned goods

Union OSS

  • Low-cost Compliance for intra-EU trade
  • Essential for anyone with >€10k intra-EU sales & all non-EU businesses holding stock in EU
  • Report EU B2C goods and services through a single VAT Return

Non-Union OSS

  • Compliance simplicity for digital services from outside the EU
  • Evolution of MOSS scheme
  • No intermediary needed
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Stay ahead of current and future compliance obligations.

Monitor 60+ countries to track the diverse range of emerging legal frameworks and evolving specifications.

Simplify compliance vendor relationship management with a single, global point of contact.

Ensure invoices continue to flow, so your business and its supply chains run smoothly.

Minimize the need for ad hoc IT involvement and investment in compliance updates.

Save time, eliminate labor-intensive manual updates, and enhance accuracy.

Stop worrying about ever-changing different country formats and processes.

Reduce your total cost of compliance.

Sovos Compliance Services Portal for E-Commerce

IOSS Intermediary Services

Validation Checks

Service Levels to Suit Your Budget

Registrations Services

Return Filing

Dashboard View of all Your VAT Registrations and Returns

Secure Data Upload & Mapping

Audit Assistance by VAT Compliance Experts

Intermediary Service Supporting Global Businesses

Companies not established in the EU (unless established and supplying from Norway) are required to appoint an Intermediary to facilitate the reporting and payment of VAT under the IOSS scheme.

Sovos is set up to act as an Intermediary on behalf of your business. We will ensure that you reap the benefits of the simplification while safeguarding against the risk of penalties and expulsion for non-compliance.

Intermediaries assume joint responsibility for:

  • Reporting and payment of VAT under IOSS
  • Record keeping

Improve the Quality of Your Data

The Sovos Compliance Services Portal empowers you to take control of your sales data. Once you’ve mapped it into our portal, our tool allows you to run your own validation checks and correct any errors before our team of experts completes the filing. Our VAT Compliance for E-commerce solution gives you peace of mind that your data is secure and that your (I)OSS VAT return is accurate and reliable.

Stay Compliant and Mitigate Business Risks

Future proof your VAT compliance profile, ensure your goods are delivered in a timely manner to your customers and do not get stuck at the border. Sovos Compliance Services Portal is underpinned by the deep knowledge and expertise of our Compliance Services & Consulting teams.

Our solution means you can:

  • Take advantage of the benefits of (I)OSS schemes
  • Access support for trading complexity: multi-country warehousing, stores and B2B
  • Leverage a single provider for periodic and continuous ‘real-time’ reporting
  • Streamline your processes
  • Reduce risk of managing VAT Compliance manually
Managed services

Technology enabled VAT managed services

A blend of human expertise and software to ease your VAT compliance workload and reduce risk wherever you operate today while ensuring you can easily flex to handle VAT requirements in the markets you intend to dominate tomorrow.