we are in a unique position as the VAT office here have determined that the services we provide (distance Learning course) will always have the UK as the point of delivery and therefore we have to charge VAT to every customer no matter where they are in the world.
 
the problem is that i cannot get the VAT to always default no matter what to UK, the country the person orders from over rides this.
 
in theory we could change all the tax codes to 15% and also put evry country in the world into the VAT list (lots are missing) but this could take for ever.
 
has anyone lese managed to find a workable alternative - and one that will cater for the EU VAt position also.

I suspect that your best option is to export va_countries and va_tax, update these and import them back into your database?
 
That should not take so long to do.
 
We also have to apply VAT to all exports but we only supply across Europe so doing it in 'admin' was no so difficult but I realize that this would be a crazy route for the whole world.
 
There was also the matter of VAT rate change recently - I had to update each country, of course.
 
Chris
 
http://www.malikstores.co.uk/