What if I go over French VAT threshold this year?

VAT is now chargeable as soon as one goes over the threshold limits of €82,800 for commerce or providing food or holiday rentals and €33,200 for services.

A transitional rate which was a few thousand euros higher has been removed.

In addition to having to retain invoices in order, there are two possible systems.

The simplest is that one accounts for the VAT charges on sales at the time of encashment.

In the second, based on the date invoices are issued, a series of ledgers are required to track the issue of the invoice and then its payment.

In both cases it is worth having software to track VAT receipts and VAT on things you buy and calculate what is owed to or from the tax authorities at the end of each quarter or month.

The micro-entrepreneur system involves charging VAT as of the moment that the threshold is exceeded and not as of the following year, and no, the charging of VAT is not retrospective.

Reader's query answered byHugh MacDonald

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