http://www.gog.com/forum/general/vat_changes_from_2015_eu

Yo, the previous thread is here:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/vat_changes_from_2015_eu/page1

So you're working at tax administration, huh? SPF/FOD Economie? I know who I'm gonna PM when I go full independent ;)

EDIT : A general practical question:
As I only plan to do business with international VAT registered businesses, I guess I should rather only register my VAT number at the national administration so I stay at the 21% belgian rate (or no VAT for dealing with non-eu partners) rather than registering to the MOSS (mini one stop shop) if I stay away from non-VAT-registered people, right?

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BTW, as the current situation is only applicable for e-services in B2C, I've read somewhere that EU is also working to introduce the same tax system for physical goods in B2C in the next few years.

Let's have a look, how many EU Laws are made:

The Brussels Business

I felt a bit of anger after I watched this movie - but I guess that is how it works when you've no counterweight to business interests.

Outsiders have been applying the principle of taxation at the rate of the customer's country for years, so there is no change for them as of 1.1.2015. All of this was done "in the name of the application of OECD recommendations", but the application of this principle to EU based providers, while decided back in 2008, was delayed to 2015.
Pm'ed you

Normally, when selling through a marketplace/portal, it's legally recognized that the VAT handling has to be done by the portal/marketplace. See last paragraph of the HRMC page guidance and the attached image...
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-digital-services-to-private-consumers/vat-businesses-supplying-digital-services-to-private-consumers

That's what I thought originally but then I discovered that Google still puts all of this responsibility on the developers/publishers. And just recently I discovered that Bandcamp and itch.io do the exact same thing. I don't know whether it's some sort of gray area these services exploit or if they are simply breaking the law but for now you're simply screwed if you're an individual or tiny business using their services. Would be great if this whole VAT 2015 shitstorm raised awareness of this bullshit and finally actually enforced this kind of responsibility for the marketplaces.

A good example of that grey area is the shitstorm between authors and Envato Markets (Audiojungle, Themeforest, etc.) where there are mutiple long and locked thread about this issue and the website owners replying (through blogs and forum posts) with vague and conflictual answers like they don't even know what they're talking about. Like "yeah, we're gonna do all the VAT stuff" and then saying they're gnna provide content authors with all customers infos :o)