Germany: The VAT Package: new rules for taxing international services

The VAT Package, which the EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Council adopted in February 2008, includes fundamental changes to the current VAT system with regard to cross-border supplies of services, especially with regard to business-to-business transactions, reveal Gotz Neuhahn, Joachim Eggers and Susanne Wieser-Duyfjes of PricewaterhouseCoopers