For businesses

    If you are buying for a business registered for VAT in an EU country other than the Netherlands, we can supply you without Dutch VAT. Tick I'm buying for a business at checkout and enter your VAT number. We check it while you are on the page, and if it is registered the VAT comes off the total before you pay.

    What happens to the VAT

    The supply is zero-rated as an intra-Community supply, and you account for the VAT in your own country under the reverse charge. Your invoice states your VAT number and the zero rate, which is what your own return needs.

    We also report the supply to the Dutch tax authority each quarter, listing your VAT number and the total we supplied you in that quarter. That report is passed to your own tax authority, so the number you give us has to be the one your business trades under.

    When it does not apply

    • The Netherlands: Dutch orders are charged Dutch VAT, business or not. The reverse charge is for cross-border supplies within the EU.
    • Outside the EU: these orders already carry no Dutch VAT, so there is nothing to take off.
    • A Dutch VAT number: we dispatch from the Netherlands, so the zero rate needs a buyer registered in another member state. An order with a Dutch number is charged VAT like any other order to its destination.
    • A number we cannot confirm: if VIES, the European Commission's VAT number service, does not recognise the number, the order is charged with VAT as usual. You can check your own number at ec.europa.eu.
    • A check we could not complete: VIES asks each member state in turn and they are not always available. The order is charged with VAT and the checkout tells you so. Get in touch afterwards. If your number was registered on the order date, we credit the invoice, issue a new one without VAT and refund the difference.

    Your invoice

    Every webshop order gets an invoice when it ships, and a business order carries your VAT number and the provision the zero rate is granted under. If you need it again later, ask us and we will send it.

    Your rights are unchanged

    Buying as a business does not change our return policy, our shipping policy or anything else on this site. The VAT number decides the tax and nothing else.