VAT S56 and Inter community Trading

[TippFan2020]

Currently I am S56 in Ireland. I trade in other European countries. A company is charging VAT on invoices despite my S56 status as the work i am completing is in Spain and company is based in Spain is this correct? Also i am purchasing goods from Germany but because my destination of goods is Spain they are charging VAT as i don't have a VAT number for the destination country, again is this right?

 

[Ciru75]

If the place of supply is Spain then the Spanish company is correct to charge you Spanish VAT, s56 is only applicable in Ireland. I would think that the German company shouldn't charge you VAT as they are making an intra-community supply but there might be some reason I'm not thinking of.