Is there VAT on your fee?

It depends on where your company is established and on its VAT number. For our German VAT service: a company established outside the EU pays no German VAT on our fee, because the place of supply of a business service is the customer's country (§ 3a Abs. 2 UStG). A company established in another EU country with a valid VAT number from that country (checked in the EU's VIES register) is invoiced under the reverse charge: we add no German VAT and you account for it in your own country. An EU company without such a number, and a company established in Germany, pays 19% German VAT (Umsatzsteuer); once a valid VAT number is on your account, later invoices switch to the reverse charge, and invoices already issued stay as they are. Our French VAT service is invoiced by our French company under French rules: 20% French VAT (TVA) for a company established in France or one that has not given us its VAT or tax number, and no French VAT otherwise.