Chapter XI: Special schemes

Section 2: Special schemes for taxable persons supplying services to non-taxable persons or making distance sales of goods or certain domestic supplies of goods (Articles 358 to 369x of Directive 2006/112/EC) [1]

Subsection 7: VAT return [2]

Article 59 [3]

1. Any return period within the meaning of Articles 364, 369f or 369s of Directive 2006/112/EC shall be a separate return period.

2. Where, in accordance with the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 of Article 57d, the non-Union or the Union scheme applies from the date of the first supply, the taxable person shall submit a separate VAT return for the calendar quarter during which the first supply took place.

3. Where a taxable person has been registered under the non-Union scheme and the Union scheme during a return period, he shall submit VAT returns and make the corresponding payments to the Member State of identification for each scheme in respect of the supplies made and the periods covered by that scheme.

4. Where the Member State of identification changes in accordance with Article 57f after the first day of the return period in question, the taxable person or the intermediary acting on his behalf shall submit VAT returns and make corresponding payments to both the former and the new Member State of identification covering the supplies made during the respective periods in which the Member States have been the Member State of identification.