When you trade with the overseas departments of France you can set up your products and services and customers to easily navigate to complexities that come with the different VAT rates involved.
Prerequisites
- The option VAT rates for overseas departments (DOM) is activated in the Sales and purchases settings.
- Optionally the Product tax group in the Sales and purchases settings is set to a DOM rate so this rate is used as a default for creating products and services.
- Customers from DOM areas who you want to apply DOM rates for need their Country set to FR (France). Additional information such as the actual DOM area can be saved in the customer address.
The following instructions will help you streamline your process for recording sales invoices:
- When a product or service is sold (almost) exclusively in DOM areas, set it’s Tax group to the DOM rate of your choice.
- When choosing a customer for your sales invoices and adding a product or service with a DOM rate, there are several possibilities:
- The customer is based in a DOM area (Country = FR): the VAT set up in the product or service is correctly used.
- The customer is based in mainland France (Country = FR): you need to edit the invoice line ( ) and add the correct information trough the Invoice line accounting details screen.
- The customer is not based in France (Country <> FR): the VAT information is automatically modified in accordance to the situation (intracommunity or export outside EU). You can edit the invoice line ( ) to modify or correct the information trough the Invoice line accounting details screen if necessary.
Disabling DOM VAT rates
To deactivate VAT rates for overseas departments (DOM), you need to make sure that there are no DOM VAT rates set up in your products and services. You also need to process any invoices that include DOM VAT rates and that are still in Draft status.
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