For businesses selling and shipping to the EU, and unsure about dealing with new EU customs tax procedures, we have found a website to help simplify the process. Alavara.com helps businesses with many different types of tax, including customs duty and import tax. They can help you with registering and reporting VAT, and ensures you stay compliant with EU regulations. 
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Take a look at their website to see if they can help take some of the stress out of the new and complicated EU tax laws. 

From July 1st 2021, business to customer sellers need to be aware of VAT reforms put in place by the European Union. Below is a quick summary of the most important changes to be aware of:

• All goods imported to the EU will now be subject to VAT regardless of value, due to the removal of the €22 VAT exception. 
• Implementation of a new electronic portal for businesses and electronic interfaces to use to comply with VAT e-commerce regulations called the Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS), to be used for distance sales of imported goods. 
• The IOSS allows VAT to be collected, declared and paid to tax authorities by suppliers and electroninc interfaces, rather than VAT being paid by the customer at the time the goods are imported into the EU. This means the buyer should not face any surprise fees on delivery, as they are charged at time of purchase.
• VAT payment is only applicable to goods worth less than €150 and purchased by a buyer within the EU.

To read about these changes in more detail, you can visit the official European Union VAT guidance page or see this IOSS factsheet from the General for Taxation and Customs Union. 

Given the current circumstances regarding Covid-19, we have updated our health and safety practices to help keep everyone safe.
We aim to:

• Maintain compliance to the requirements of the Health & Safety at Work Act and associated Regulations whilst taking into account biological hazards.
• Continue to provide safe and healthy working conditions to all our employees, subcontractors, clients and visitors whilst making workplace amendments as needed to protect everyone from the virus.
• Provide sufficient resources to monitor and support the continuing effectiveness of our occupational health, safety and welfare management system which includes COVID secure measures.
• Provide sufficient information, instruction, training and supervision to ensure ongoing compliance to COVID management and that all persons are aware of the dangers of COVID 19 and how to protect themselves.​

If you're wondering what we're to reduce our environmental impact, you can read our new environmental policy below:

​ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 2021
 
Alpaca Parcel Ltd is an independent logistics company for work-related to Warehousing, Pick and Pack activities and logistics.
Alpaca Parcel Ltd is committed to the continuous improvement of environmental performance and management and the prevention of pollution from the activities we undertake. We will comply with all applicable legal and other relevant requirements that relate to our environmental aspects, official codes of practice and, as far as practicable, accepted best practice in environmental management.
We are committed to:
1)Implementing energy saving technologies and initiatives
2)Adopting strategies to minimise the environmental impacts of business
travel.
3)Using utilities in a responsible and economic way to minimise negative
impacts on the environment.