Article 2Amendments to Directive 2006/112/EC with effect from 1 January 2027

Directive 2006/112/EC is amended as follows:

(1)

Article 14a is replaced by the following:

1. Where a taxable person facilitates, through the use of an electronic interface such as a marketplace, platform, portal or similar means, distance sales of goods imported from third territories or third countries in consignments of an intrinsic value not exceeding EUR 150, that taxable person shall be deemed to have received and supplied those goods themselves.

2. Where a taxable person facilitates, through the use of an electronic interface, such as a marketplace, platform, portal or similar means, the supply of goods within the Community by a taxable person not established within the Community to a taxable person, or a non-taxable legal person, whose intra-Community acquisitions of goods are not subject to VAT pursuant to Article 3(1), or to any other non-taxable person, the taxable person who facilitates the supply shall be deemed to have received and supplied those goods themselves.

The Commission shall, by 1 July 2027, present to the European Parliament and to the Council, on the basis of information obtained from the Member States, an assessment report on the functioning of the deemed-supplier rule set out in the first subparagraph and, where appropriate, submit a legislative proposal for its further extension.’

(2)

Article 17a is amended as follows:

(a)

in paragraph 2, point (a) is replaced by the following:

‘(a)

goods are dispatched or transported by a taxable person, or by a third party on their behalf, on or before 30 June 2028, to another Member State with a view to those goods being supplied there, at a later stage and after arrival, to another taxable person who is entitled to take ownership of those goods in accordance with an existing agreement between both taxable persons;’

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(b)

The article continues in the official text.