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Custom Compliance Plans

Most VAT advice for online sellers is generic: register for OSS, charge VAT at checkout, file every quarter. That works for a textbook webshop. It rarely fits a real business that combines suppliers outside the EU, a warehouse inside the EU, marketplace sales and several payment providers.

A custom compliance plan starts from how your business actually runs, not from a template. The result is a structure that is legally sound and practical enough for your team to follow every day.

When a standard approach falls short

  • Hybrid supply chains. You dropship some products directly from China and ship others from an EU warehouse. Each flow can have a different VAT treatment.
  • Multiple sales channels. Your own Shopify store, a marketplace and social commerce can each create different obligations, including marketplace deemed-supplier rules.
  • Growth into new markets. Crossing thresholds or adding a warehouse in a new country can trigger registrations you did not need before.
  • Past errors. If VAT has been charged or reported incorrectly, the plan has to correct the past as well as fix the future.

What a compliance plan includes

  • Full compliance mapping of your operations: suppliers, warehouses, carriers, channels and payment flows.
  • A tailored VAT registration and reporting strategy: which schemes, which countries, which filing frequency.
  • Identification of risk areas, and of opportunities where you are currently paying VAT that is not due.
  • An implementation roadmap with practical steps for checkout settings, invoicing and bookkeeping.
  • Continuous support as your business scales and your setup changes.

How we work

  1. Intake. We collect your order data, shipping origins and settlement reports for a representative period.
  2. Analysis. We determine the correct VAT treatment for each flow and identify where your current setup deviates.
  3. Plan. You receive a written plan: what changes, in what order, and why, with references to the applicable rules.
  4. Implementation. We support you while you change your store settings, invoices and processes, and we check the first returns under the new setup.

Who this is for

Growing e-commerce businesses whose setup has become too complex for a one-size-fits-all solution: sellers with several supply flows, several channels, or plans to expand into new EU markets.

If you run a simple cross-border dropshipping model from a single non-EU supplier, the VAT Fix is usually the more direct route.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from the VAT Fix?

The VAT Fix is a defined, one-time structure for cross-border dropshipping. A custom compliance plan covers businesses whose setup combines several models and needs a broader approach.

Can the plan also deal with mistakes from previous years?

Yes. Correcting past periods is part of the analysis where needed. Where VAT was paid without a liability, we look at recovery options.

Do you implement the plan, or only write it?

Both. You receive the written plan, and we support the implementation until the new setup runs correctly.

Not sure whether you need a custom plan? Start with the free VAT assessment.