I called Netbilling and 2000Charge. Neither one had heard of this. Neither one I talked to has yet responded with what they're going to do. We have a lot of overseas business and I suspect any internet business would, and the response I got from one of them was
"I am fairly sure that would not apply to the vast majority of our merchants"
It's a sales tax, they're the gateway and get country information as well as make the charge there. There's no control that realistically would work on our part without their intervention, I can't even get reliable detailed stats from most of our processors on a per-country basis. Tracking by language/country code is at best moderately accurate, and I can pull some of that data from our affiliate program database manually but it won't be accurat.
I also don't get this one. Verotel and Inet-Cash, who we both deal with, are Euro companies. Verotel does not appear to be charging VAT, Inet-Cash does charge us MehrWertSteuer (VAT) though, 16%, on their fees but I don't see it passed on to the end user. I was under the impression that they both already have to charge the end user, based on the country they're in.
I want to comply with this, but it's going to be virtually impossible to do so without our processors and gateways' help.
-doug