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Version status: Inserted | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 July 2021 - onwards

Article 5b

For the application of Article 14a of Directive 2006/112/EC, the term "facilitates" means the use of an electronic interface to allow a customer and a supplier offering goods for sale through the electronic interface to enter into contact which results in a supply of goods through that electronic interface.

However, a taxable person is not facilitating a supply of goods where all of the following conditions are met:

(a) that taxable person does not set, either directly or indirectly, any of the terms and conditions under which the supply of goods is made;

(b) that taxable person is not, either directly or indirectly, involved in authorising the charge to the customer in respect of the payment made;

(c) that taxable person is not, either directly or indirectly, involved in the ordering or delivery of the goods.

Article 14a of Directive 2006/112/EC shall not apply to a taxable person who only provides any of the following:

(a) the processing of payments in relation to the supply of goods;

(b) the listing or advertising of goods;

(c) the redirecting or transferring of customers to other electronic interfaces where goods are offered for sale, without any further intervention in the supply.