From: MM 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Paying VAT on downloaded US software
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:00:54 +0100

On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:25:58 GMT, Ronald Raygun
 wrote:

>MM wrote:
>
>> So any US-based business has to apply to HM Inland Revenue and Customs
>> for VAT registration before it may sell to UK customers, yes?
>
>No.  Obviously low-volume traders would not.  I presume that this
>would only be necessary if they supplied more than £60k worth of
>stuff to the UK/EU per year, or some such similar threshold.

Is it actually not really the case that no US business has a blessed
clue what would be meant by "VAT registration"?

MM