![]() Fortunately Discogs is a large enough entity to spread out the expenses, and they collect the taxes and provide the information we need to be able to sell directly to customers in those countries. The expense of paying a broker to collect the tax on a single album sale is greater than the profit of the same album, something the tax collectors apparently didn't take into consideration when drafting their new laws. This change, one of the most onerous to small businesses working with customers in the UK & EU, disallows us from being our own broker in collecting those taxes. What that meant effectively was that Squidco continued to take orders that were delayed by one week and that we pulled all of our inventory out of the Amazon and Discogs marketplaces.Īs all European and UK customers know, Discogs is an essential part of our business since the custom law changes a couple of years back required prepayment of VAT and EU taxes. As carefully as I had planned the trip to accommodate Squidco's needs, events conspired affecting our staff and an unplanned family event, which forced us to partially shut down for the first time since moving to Wilmington 12 years ago. As our Facebook followers have been informed, I took a couple of weeks off in October to travel to Paris for my 10th wedding anniversary, JM's big decade birthday, and an opportunity to meet some of our French business partners. ![]()
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