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Value-added tax registration thresholds, simplified VAT regimes, input-VAT offsets, and VAT recordkeeping for businesses

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September 11, 20268 min read

Switzerland Now Lets Small Businesses File VAT Once a Year: Should You Switch?

Since January 2025, Swiss businesses with taxable turnover up to CHF 5,005,000 and three clean filing periods can elect one annual VAT return through the SFTA ePortal instead of quarterly returns, but still pay advance installments on May 30, August 30 and November 30. Here is who qualifies, why the end-of-February election deadline matters, when quarterly filing is the better cash-flow choice, and the monthly bookkeeping habits that make annual filing safe.

Mike Thrift

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September 10, 20269 min read

Brazil's Dual-VAT Reform Is Quietly Pushing Small Businesses Out of Simples Nacional: A B2B Seller's Guide to the New IBS/CBS Credit Chain

Brazil's IBS/CBS dual VAT replaces five consumption taxes, and a Simples Nacional supplier now passes on a smaller input credit than a regular-regime competitor quoting the same price. A guide to the September 30 and November 1, 2026 deadlines, the 2027 end of cash-basis Simples, and what the credit chain changes in B2B pricing and bookkeeping.

Mike Thrift

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September 9, 202611 min read

Etsy's New France Import Fee, Explained: What the End of Duty-Free EU Parcels Means for Your Prices and Your Books

The EU ended duty-free entry for parcels under €150 on July 1, 2026, France charges €2 per item type, and an EU-wide handling fee of about €2 per parcel arrives in November — Etsy collects the France fee at checkout but not the €3 duty. Here is what each fee costs on a real order and how to book pass-through fees, prepaid duties, and IOSS VAT correctly.

Mike Thrift

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September 9, 20269 min read

Ghana's VAT Act 1151: Why Service Providers Have No Registration Threshold

Since January 1, 2026, Ghana's VAT Act 1151 requires every supplier of taxable services to register within 30 days of starting — at any turnover — while goods suppliers register only above GH¢750,000. Failing to register costs three times the VAT payable plus interest.

Mike Thrift

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September 9, 20269 min read

Ireland's 9% VAT Rate Is Live: What Restaurants, Cafés, and Hairdressers Should Update in Their Books

Since 1 July 2026 food, catering, and hairdressing in Ireland are taxed at 9% VAT instead of 13.5% — worth about €3.63 per €100 of sales if prices hold. Alcohol stays at 23% and accommodation at 13.5%, so this guide covers the pricing decision, till and tax-code updates, deposits that straddle the change, and how to split mixed bills correctly.

Mike Thrift

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September 9, 202610 min read

Mexico's 2026 Marketplace VAT Withholding: What B2B Sellers Must Track

Since January 1, 2026, Mexican intermediation platforms withhold VAT and income tax from business sellers — 50% of VAT and 2.5% of payments with an RFC on file, 100% and 20% without — and SAT holds permanent online access to platform transaction data. Here is how to reconcile payouts, receipts, and credits.

Mike Thrift

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September 9, 20269 min read

Poland's Mandatory KSeF E-Invoicing Is Live: A Compliance Timeline for Small Businesses Selling Into Poland

Poland's KSeF platform has required structured B2B e-invoices since February 1, 2026 for the largest taxpayers and April 1, 2026 for everyone else, with penalties and the payment-reference duty starting January 1, 2027. Here is who is in scope, how the FA(3) submission flow works, and what to fix during the penalty-free window.

Mike Thrift

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September 8, 202611 min read

Denmark's Digital Bookkeeping Act Hits Sole Proprietors: The DKK 300,000 Test and Your Switch-Over Plan

From January 1, 2026, Danish sole proprietorships, partnerships, and associations with net turnover above DKK 300,000 in both 2024 and 2025 — roughly 118,000 businesses — must keep books in a compliant digital system with NemHandel/Peppol e-invoicing, tamper-evident five-year storage, weekly automated backups, and SAF-T export on demand. This guide covers the two-year turnover test, the five system requirements, the five mistakes that trigger enforcement, and a seven-step migration checklist.

Mike Thrift

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September 2, 20269 min read

Meta's Location Fees Add 2%–5% to Your Ad Bill: How to Rebuild Your Marketing Budget Line Items

Since July 1, 2026, Meta adds 2%–5% location fees on ads delivered to users in the UK, France, Italy, Spain, Austria and Türkiye, billed on top of campaign budgets and never shown in Ads Manager. Learn how to compute your blended fee rate, book the fees as their own ledger line, and reconcile from the invoice rather than the dashboard.

Mike Thrift

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August 29, 20269 min read

Uzbekistan's Simplified Tax Threshold: A Recordkeeping Guide for Small Traders

Uzbekistan raised its simplified-regime threshold from 1 billion to 5 billion soums on June 1, 2026, and added a voluntary 6% simplified VAT for catering, retail, and services. Here is how small traders should track turnover in soums, keep tax collected separate from revenue, and model the VAT trade-off before electing it.

Mike Thrift

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