Baffle me with Bullshit --
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The answer is that many foreign countries have a national tax called the Value Added Tax or VAT. This tax - which can be as much as fifteen to thirty percent - is included in the purchase price. Many foreign governments argue that the VAT is an indirect tax and is therefore permitted under the treaties. The State Department does not agree,
US Department of State, Office of Foreign Missions, Tax Program
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This in the context of US embassy purchases
There is no treaty and stop posting bizarre conjecture.
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see the above I added maybe after your reply.
Show me on an official US GOVERNMENT website anything saying American businesses must collect EU tax -- you cant.
I am sure that US mutlinationals that maintain a domiciled presence (an EU nation's corporate charter) in the EU comply with the EU Directives ( including the VAT Directives).
The OP is a Canadian? business. So what the Canadian laws/treaties my be I don't know. For fact, we do not charge our Canadian customers (b2c ) their respective Provincial GST and we are a Netherlands chartered corporation.