VAT on intra-community Supply?

[ccervantes]

Our Italian vendor charged us VAT (we are established in the UK). They didn't have our VAT#. I'm trying to get them to reverse the charges, but they refuse, claiming it's not possible! I know in the UK this is not the case, but not sure about Italian laws... Anyone has any idea of this works in Italy? Information is not readily available like in the UK, HELP! :|

 

[GraemeL]

You will find HMRC are very helpful on the phone. No point in risking wrong advice.

Meantime if you need to make a payment to your vendor to maintain supply/goodwill etc, do it without VAT and tell them what you are doing.

 

[ccervantes]

Thank you for your reply.

The problem here is that our company already submitted payment in full. HMRC was extremely helpful. They mentioned that had it been the other way around, where UK customer incorrectly charged VAT to Italian customer, HMRC would allow the reversal/correction. Unfortunately, each country has slightly different rules.

In the meantime, I've been looking like crazy for official Italian guidance hoping to find clarification on how they expect Invoice corrections/amendments to be handled... haven't been successful.