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Vintro Pro · margin scheme and paperwork

Handle margin VAT without the extra stress

Margin goods, standard VAT, export or a sale inside the EU: work from one system and keep your paperwork sound.

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The margin scheme is not difficult. It is unforgiving.

For margin goods you pay VAT on your profit margin instead of on the full selling price. That is why you record, piece by piece, what you paid for it and what you got for it. According to the Belgian FPS Finance, without proof of the purchase price the margin cannot be established, and the full selling price is then taxed.

The scheme exists in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom, but the conditions and the registers differ per country. How the scheme works, and what is different in the United Kingdom.

What the software keeps track of

Margin goods

  • purchase price and selling price stay attached to the same piece
  • the margin is worked out per piece, not estimated over a period
  • the invoice shows no VAT amount, as the scheme requires
  • the draft invoice lands on the margin goods account

Standard VAT and export

  • you pick the treatment per piece: standard, margin or export
  • export gets its own number and commodity code
  • every treatment posts to its own account
  • one list shows which piece falls under which treatment

Every mistake costs time

When an item is handled wrongly, you usually pay for it twice:

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a correction afterwards, once the return has already gone out

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extra digging to find where the piece came from

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questions from your accountant about a margin nobody can reconstruct

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VAT on the full selling price, because the purchase cannot be proven

Vintro Pro standardises that process: the treatment is fixed the moment you buy the piece, and everything after it follows from there.

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According to the Belgian FPS Finance, without proof of the purchase price the margin cannot be established, and the full selling price is taxed.

Frequently asked questions

What is the margin scheme exactly?

For margin goods you pay VAT on your profit margin instead of on the full selling price. So you record, piece by piece, what you paid for it and what you got for it: according to the Belgian FPS Finance, without proof of the purchase price the margin cannot be established.

Does this apply outside Belgium?

A margin scheme for second-hand goods exists in Belgium, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom, but the conditions, the registers and the return differ per country. The knowledge base has an article per country, with every figure checked against the government source itself.

Does Vintro Pro replace my accountant?

No. It keeps what your accountant needs — per piece the purchase, the sale and the treatment — and turns that into draft invoices on the right account. Your accountant still files the return.

Read on

Everything about the margin scheme, checked country by country against the government source.

How does the margin VAT scheme work? Working out margin VAT, with an example What counts as a margin good? Buying in the EU: margin or reverse charge? The margin scheme in the United Kingdom What belongs in your stock list?

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