# VAT on Digital Goods in Ireland

> VAT rules for SaaS, digital products, and online services in Ireland -- rates, thresholds, and compliance.

- **Jurisdiction**: Ireland
- **Tax Type**: VAT
- **Standard Rate**: 23%
- **URL**: https://dodopayments.com/tax/vat-ireland

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## How VAT Applies to Digital Goods

The **standard VAT rate** in Ireland is **23%**. The registration threshold for non-resident digital sellers is **EUR 0 (non-EU)** (EUR).

Ireland applies VAT to most digital services sold to consumers, including SaaS plans, app subscriptions, cloud-hosted products, online tools, and digital content access. As with other EU jurisdictions, B2C digital VAT follows customer location, while B2B cross-border services can often be reverse charged with proper VAT status evidence. Businesses selling both platform access and advisory/support add-ons should split line items to keep treatment clear.

If billing is subscription-heavy, attention should focus on tax continuity across lifecycle events. Free-trial conversion, proration after plan change, and post-renewal credits can all create subtle mismatches unless tax and invoicing logic share the same source-of-truth rules.

## Registration Requirements

For non-EU merchants, registration should be completed before first taxable Irish B2C digital sale. Non-Union OSS is usually the preferred path for multi-country EU digital sales, while local registration in Ireland may be chosen for specific operating needs. The authority is the **Revenue Commissioners**.

Irish VAT identifiers follow the **IE VAT number** format. Build this into invoice templates, B2B validation, and finance-system mappings from the beginning. In terms of execution timeline, plan for several weeks including application handling, account setup on filing systems, and pre-launch QA of tax outputs.

## Filing and Compliance

Ireland often applies **bi-monthly** VAT filing for many businesses, with local submissions and administration through Revenue systems such as **ROS (Revenue Online Service)**. OSS returns remain quarterly for qualifying cross-border digital B2C activity. Regardless of route, period accuracy depends on clean linkage between checkout tax calculation, invoicing, and posted corrections.

Keep full audit support: VAT return workpapers, invoice/credit-note references, customer location evidence, and exported transaction-level calculations. A practical record-retention baseline is at least **6 years**, with many teams retaining longer where systems permit.

## How Dodo Payments Handles This

Dodo Payments, as Merchant of Record, determines and collects Irish VAT at checkout, generates compliant transaction documentation, and manages remittance in one system. Merchants get filing-ready data without building separate VAT operations for Ireland. This cuts manual effort and improves close reliability.

## Related Pages

**Section:** [All Tax Guides](https://dodopayments.com/tax)
**See also:** [Ireland](https://dodopayments.com/payments-in/ireland) | [EUR](https://dodopayments.com/currency/eur)

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