Wrong "Valve Corporation VAT number" on some purchases, how to predict which one will be used before buying?

[Office Cat]

Lets get this out of the way, I am not trying to do anything illegal! I have the right for a tax return in Belgium, so I can legally get -21% back when buying a Steam Deck(plan on getting one in 2-3 months).

So my problem is that in my "recent transaction on Steam" some purchases include the Belgium VAT number that I need and some include the VAT number from the Netherlands that unfortunately cant get me a tax return. It seems random to me which is used, so I am afraid for example of buying the 420 Euro Steam Deck and then realizing that I cant get almost 88 Euros back.

I would just like to know is there a way to predict or buy the product knowing on what VAT number will the item be charged?

[HikariLight]

To purchase ANYTHING from a specific region, you need a valid payment method, a bank account, and the currency from said region. If you don't have all of those you can't buy it.

[wuddih]

they can not give you a belgian vat number since they are not located in belgium. they have their hardware warehouse and logistics in NL so they are probably using that for EU-based taxes for a while now.

how tax returns happen with those you have to deal with your local people.

[Supafly]

Could try asking other Deck owners
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/

[Office Cat]

Publicado originalmente por wuddih:

they can not give you a belgian vat number since they are not located in belgium. they have their hardware warehouse and logistics in NL so they are probably using that for EU-based taxes for a while now.

how tax returns happen with those you have to deal with your local people.

That's the thing, some of my perches have a Belgium and some have a Dutch VAT number so I am not sure how they pick what number they use.
Plus I believe it dose not matter from what warehouse it comes. I purchased multiple times things from stores with Belgium VAT numbers and warehouses in different countries.(such as 2 laptops, since the Dutch keyboards are QWERTY keyboards while the Belgium ones are AZERTY keyboards)

[Bee🐝]

Publicado originalmente por Supafly:

Could try asking other Deck owners
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/

Ask here and if that doesn't work, move on to the Steam Deck sub.

In general, it gets way more footfall - it's not buried in the bowels of the Steam forums - and there use to be at least one active Belgium user.

[wuddih]

Publicado originalmente por Office Cat:

Publicado originalmente por wuddih:

they can not give you a belgian vat number since they are not located in belgium. they have their hardware warehouse and logistics in NL so they are probably using that for EU-based taxes for a while now.

how tax returns happen with those you have to deal with your local people.

some of my perches have a Belgium [...] VAT number

what is that BE VAT number on Steam purchases?

[Office Cat]

Publicado originalmente por wuddih:

Publicado originalmente por Office Cat:

some of my perches have a Belgium [...] VAT number

what is that BE VAT number on Steam purchases?

This is the number: BE0671797155
And here is a EU commission page that can confirm its a valid number: https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/#/vat-validation

While some purchases have this VAT number: NL824237171B01