Not anymore. For few years there has been EU VAT one stop shop system where you pay to your local tax office. And with digital products it's even easier with "VAT Mini One Stop Shop" (MOSS).

So for EU to EU company it's actually very simple.

But in mean time many other countries made some version of "digital tax". So you want to have this handled by someone anyway.

> You never had to handle cross country VAT it seems

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This is my European vat number, you can check it on VIES.

Vat is reverse charged from years, nobody pays it in B2B.

They are sensible regulations, but single market consisting of multiple countries with own fiscal and taxation policies is always somewhat complex thing.

Still, my understanding is that if you know the country and classify product like you know the rate. So it is less complex than sales taxes which might be local in other places.