Cross-border VAT and sales tax for Daftra

No. It sends e-invoices, which is a different obligation. Its Saudi manual documents a Send to E.Invoice button that returns a Valid or Invalid status from ZATCA, its Egypt manual a Send to ETA button, and its Jordan manual a Send to the Income and Sales Tax Department button. The periodic return is separate: Daftra's own answer is that you go to Reports, then General Ledger Reports, then VAT Return, and filter three consecutive months for a quarter. There is no submit step. Its documentation describes exporting reports in multiple formats to simplify submission to tax authorities, and paying the tax as a manual journal entry from VAT Under Settlement to Treasury or Bank.

Yes to both in its own words, with one detail worth knowing. Its Saudi page states it is fully compliant with Phase 1 and Phase 2, connects to Fatoora, and sends the required data to ZATCA through its API, with future phase updates applied at no extra fee. Its Egypt page states it fully supports connecting and integrating with the Egyptian Tax Authority's system. The detail: its Phase 2 manual says plainly that invoices cannot be sent to ZATCA on the Free Plan, and that ZATCA integration must be completed for each branch individually. Worth checking against your own account. ZATCA itself notes that taxpayers may use any compliant provider, even one not on its indicative list.

Commenda registers you for UAE VAT and files the VAT 201 return. E-invoicing is a separate obligation: the UAE runs a five-corner Decentralized Continuous Transaction Control and Exchange model, and only an accredited service provider can sit at corner two or corner three of it. Daftra's UAE page states that it is one. One thing to confirm with Daftra directly: its knowledge base answer on which countries it supports e-invoicing in names Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan, and the only UAE output its documentation describes is an Export XML button that downloads the file to your device.

Usually IOSS, and it depends on where the goods start. IOSS is the EU scheme for imported low-value goods sold to consumers from outside the EU, which is what normally fits a shipment leaving Egypt. OSS is the different scheme for cross-border B2C sales that begin inside the EU, letting you hold one registration in a single member state and file from it for all 27 plus Northern Ireland. The moment you hold stock in an EU warehouse the answer changes again and you need a local registration in that country. We determine which registration your actual flow needs rather than defaulting to one.

Often yes, and being a UAE entity does not change it. Economic nexus thresholds sit at $100,000 of sales or 200 transactions in most states, 45 states levy a sales tax at all, and software taxability varies state by state rather than following one rule. A foreign entity crosses those tests exactly as a US one does, and pre-incorporation sales can create affiliate nexus exposure that carries over to a US entity once it is formed. Nothing in Daftra is watching a US state. Commenda measures your transactions against every state, registers you where you are exposed, and files there.

You can add rates, and that is not the hard part. Daftra lets you create a tax as a name and a percentage, and a product carries Sales Tax 1 plus an optional Sales Tax 2. A single US delivery address can need a state rate, a county rate, a city rate and a transit district rate, and home-rule jurisdictions in Alabama, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois and Louisiana set their own. Rates also change, and the rate is only correct if the product is taxable in that state, which varies. The work is not entering a number, it is knowing which number, where, and whether you were allowed to collect it.