Yes, but it’s a direct line item when they buy something. And only consumers don’t get it back. It is a tax on consumers specifically.
Except it isn’t, yes it works out like that, but legally it is a tax on the value added by the company. It is just passed on to the consumer by 100%, but that is the same for any tax.
Just like with any value added, sales or revenue tax it will be passed onto the consumer 1 to 1, but it doesn’t change the fact it is designed as a company tax and tax systems are based around that fact.
Only if everybody could keep a proper bookkeeping you could go to a system where your find a system that taxes only the businesses and the consumers get it back, but in the end the companies would just increase the prices and pass it onto the consumers anyway.
But they aren’t discriminating by your country of residence. The PRICE that the vendor charges is the same regardless of where you’re from. Your own country charges VAT, through the vendor. That’s on top of the price.
Technically they are, again not the consumers issue that the VAT rate is higher. If the company doesn’t need to pay VAT (because of the revenue being so low in that year) then they don’t have to pay VAT, but it doesn’t change the price of the product you buy, at least not in basis. The suggested retail price stays the same, the price for digital goods stay the same.
Except it isn’t, yes it works out like that, but legally it is a tax on the value added by the company. It is just passed on to the consumer by 100%, but that is the same for any tax.
Just like with any value added, sales or revenue tax it will be passed onto the consumer 1 to 1, but it doesn’t change the fact it is designed as a company tax and tax systems are based around that fact.
Only if everybody could keep a proper bookkeeping you could go to a system where your find a system that taxes only the businesses and the consumers get it back, but in the end the companies would just increase the prices and pass it onto the consumers anyway.
You can read the Dutch law https://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0002629/2026-01-01#HoofdstukII and it basically only speaks about companies.
Technically they are, again not the consumers issue that the VAT rate is higher. If the company doesn’t need to pay VAT (because of the revenue being so low in that year) then they don’t have to pay VAT, but it doesn’t change the price of the product you buy, at least not in basis. The suggested retail price stays the same, the price for digital goods stay the same.