Billing foreign vendors - is VAT required?

[JerryMungo]

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[swakop_toe]

Excluding VAT, and you will not claim VAT on that invoice.

 

[Tomtomtom]

Exports are zero-rated in SA for VAT. So you fill fields 2/2A on the VAT201 for those supplies.

You might however have VAT obligations in the jurisdiction you're selling into, depending on volume.

 

[Asgard85]

Just so we understand your question clearly: the vendor is a foreign company which is billing their customer which is located in South Africa?
So for example company X in South Africa is buying a product from a company in Zambia, and your question is whether the company in Zambia should charge VAT on the sale?

 

[Affieplaas]

A vendor is someone that supplies goods to you and they invoice you.
A customer is someone that you deliver goods to and you invoice them.

Your post is unclear.

Generally if you are an SA entity and you deliver goods to a foreign customers and the goods leave SA, the invoice can be zero rated (but you need to retain proof that the goods have left the country).

If you deliver the goods in SA to a foreign customer and they remove the goods from SA, you must charge standard rate VAT. The customer can then claim the VAT once the goods are removed from SA.

If you buy goods from a foreign vendor, they will not charge VAT if the goods leave their country destined for SA, however you will pay import VAT when the goods cross the border into SA.

It will help if you can provide more details ....

 

[Snyper564]

Fixed the OP
SA vendor provides a service to a foreign client based in the US. Can the vendor, who is a VAT vendor, provide an invoice exclusive of VAT?

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Value-Added Tax, or VAT, is currently typically charged at 14% on all taxable supplies of goods or services rendered by registered VAT vendors. Taxable

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