What is the role of a tax agent?

• A tax agent carries on your behalf all of the formalities required for registration for VAT purposes (drawing up forms and registration documents in the scope of VAT tax, ordering translation services, and support with procedures until receipt of a local VAT number).
• Duties of a tax agent include : submission of tax declarations (both VAT declarations as well as recapitulative statements of intra-community trade), submission of requests for tax returns, submission of statistical declarations (Intrastat) and managing VAT payments (informing on the amount of due VAT payments).
• A tax agent ensures compliance with tax regulations beginning with the analysis of a given case, through the control over correctness of documents, to the provision of information on all of the obligations of the taxpayer on an on-going basis (issuing invoices, amendments to regulations).
• A tax agent manages all correspondence and exchanges with tax authorities and is also present to assist, at the client’s request, during a tax control.

A tax agent or a tax Representative? To learn more about differences between a tax agent and a tax representative, please contact amavat Europe click here for details.