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DeterminedAI applies country-specific narratives, citations, mandatory fields, and currency rules automatically on every invoice. Free tools stay free; paid plans automate the whole pipeline.
Try DeterminedAI free See pricingThe generator answers two questions at once: what VAT treatment applies to a given supply, and what wording the invoice has to carry to be accepted by the destination country's tax authority. Both are routine for domestic supplies and routinely wrong for cross-border ones, especially for SaaS and other digital services where the place-of-supply rules send taxing rights to the customer's country.
For each combination of supplier country, customer country, customer type, and supply type, the tool returns the recommended treatment (charge VAT, apply reverse charge, zero rate, exempt, or out of scope), the rate to charge if applicable, the invoice label the destination country expects, the narrative text the supplier should add, the article citation that supports it, and a mandatory-fields checklist drawn from the destination country's rules.
A missing reverse charge narrative on an EU B2B invoice can cost the buyer their input VAT recovery. A missing "Tax Invoice" label on a UAE supply can invalidate the whole invoice. A missing T-number on a Japanese qualified invoice means the Japanese customer cannot claim the input credit. The wording is small; the consequences are not.
The narratives the generator produces are the ones tax authorities cite in their guidance: Article 196 for cross-border EU B2B services, Article 138 for intra-Community supplies of goods, Article 48 for UAE reverse charge, Section 218 of the Excise Tax Act for Canadian B2B self-assessment, Division 84 of the GST Act for Australian B2B, and so on. You can copy them straight into your invoicing template.
"Reverse charge: VAT to be accounted for by the recipient under Article 196 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC." All 27 EU Member States accept this wording. Shorter forms ("Reverse charge" alone) are also accepted but the article citation is the most defensible.
HMRC accepts any narrative that makes the reverse charge clear. The most common wording is "Reverse charge: Customer to account for VAT to HMRC" or "VAT to be accounted for by the recipient under the reverse charge." For the UK domestic construction reverse charge, cite Section 55A VAT Act 1994.
Yes, in almost every jurisdiction. Foreign-currency invoices are allowed, but the VAT amount must also appear in the destination country's currency: euro for EU Member States, sterling for the UK, AED for the UAE, SAR for Saudi Arabia, JPY for Japan. The generator flags this in the currency box.
Treat them as B2C. Without a valid VAT number you cannot evidence that reverse charge applies. Charge the destination country's VAT (registering there if you are above the threshold) and document why. Pick "B2B without VAT/GST number" in the generator and you will see the same advice.
Some treatments only apply once you are VAT-registered in the destination country. For B2C cross-border digital services into the EU, for example, the OSS or local registration is a prerequisite to charging the destination rate. The generator tells you when registration is the next step. The Exposure Dashboard is the fastest way to see which countries you have crossed thresholds in.
The US has no VAT, so US-to-US sales of digital services are sales tax (state by state) and outside this tool's scope. US suppliers selling to non-US customers can still trigger VAT obligations abroad: pick the US as the supplier country to see what the destination jurisdiction requires.