Wholesale cost of games in Germany

[Faxanadu]

bdbdbd said:

Faxanadu said:

Kasz216 said:

Lets see if i've got this right too....

every game brought in would be charged the Aquisition VAT opon entering the county and the output VAT between store and consumer.

The buisness to buisness VAT may or may not be collected depending on if they publisher was in the same country as the aquirer.

So was this publisher also in germany fax?

Either way, pre-vat that'd mean the publisher would be actually clearing 24 euros post VAT for aquisition fee.

So 24 euros slit between the publisher and developer. Yeah i'd agree with your less then 10 euros idea based on this... by a lot when you consider wholesale purchases.

What is scary however is this is Nintendo's publisher... a guy who doesn't incure most of the prices your average publisher does as Nintendo pays for it's own advertising. If this were a 3rd party game the publisher would probably take a bigger piece of the cake.

 

Any way your friend can inqure about the price of a 360 or PS3 game?

VAT is usually charged through to the consumer...meaning any kind of VAT can be reimbursed (as far as I know)

However, the 30 Euros was without VAT. How it is handled for imports I do not know.

 

So your friend payed 35,7€ for the game? Maybe i can clarify when the VAT is payed: By a rule, it's payed every time product is sold, like this: publisher->importer->retailer->consumer. Or in case where the product is sold in a country where it's imported/manufactured publisher->retailer->consumer. Basically you can sell product in the same country the product has been imported/manufactured, without having to pay VAT before the product is sold to consumer, but at the moment i can't recall was there any certain terms required to be fulfilled. And another rule is, that every time the product is sold to a different country, you need to pay the VAT, with exception, that you can sell the product to an instance, which isn't the end consumer, when the whole VAT is payed to the country of origin. Since in Nintendo products, Germany is the country of origin with 19% VAT, it's more profitable to pay the VAT straight to Germany in countries that have higher VAT, and in countries that have lower VAT, you need to pay the tax when the product is sold to a different country. I need to check how it specifically went when i have the time, but it was pretty close how i described it.

 Exactly. just didnt want to make it more complicated as it was. last in line pays the VAT...