There are several factors which determine whether you need to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) for orders on Materialise OnSite:
1. The availability of a valid VAT number (in case of business clients*)
2. The delivery destination of an order and
3. The location of the invoicing office.
| Business clients with a valid* EU VAT number | Private clients without a EU VAT number | |
| Delivery destination is in a Non-EU country except for UK | No VAT will be applied (export). | No VAT will be applied (export). |
| Delivery destination is in UK | Materialise OnSite has an invoicing office in UK, so UK VAT will be applied. | UK VAT will be applied. |
| Delivery destination is in a EU country |
When the invoicing office is in the same country as the destination country, the VAT rate of this country will be applied. When the invoicing office is not in the same country as the destination country (cross-country B2B transaction), no VAT will be applied and you will receive a reverse VAT charge invoice. Materialise OnSite has invoicing offices in France (for FR), in Germany (for DE), in Austria (for AT), in Italy (for IT), in Poland (for PL) and in Belgium (for BE and the rest of the world besides FR, DE, AT, IT, PL and UK). |
The VAT rate of the destination country will be applied. |
** If you have a valid EU VAT number, you can enter this in the Company info section. Please note that invalid VAT numbers will lead to the cancellation of the order.
- In the case of credit card or PayPal payments, the order will be invoiced from Materialise NV.
- If the delivery takes place in Belgium or to a Belgian VAT registered customer (with Valid BE VAT nr), Belgian VAT 21% will be applied.
- If the delivery takes place to a EU country and the customer has a valid EU VAT number (not Belgian), no VAT will be applied and the invoice will follow the Intracommunity rule.
- If the delivery takes place to a EU country and the customer has NO valid EU VAT number, the VAT rate of the destination country will be applied following the OSS regulation.
Countries within the EU that are subject to VAT are:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.