On Thursday, December 25, 2014 3:07:58 PM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
> On 12/25/2014 1:10 PM, wrote:
> > On Thursday, December 25, 2014 10:05:36 AM UTC-8, jmcquown wrote:
> >> On 12/25/2014 12:51 PM, Ophelia wrote:
> >>> Under new EU law, from the 01.01.2015, News.Individual.Net will no
> >>> longer sell services to anyone outside Germany.
> >>>
> >>> https://news.individual.net/register/step1.php
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I don't see anything in that link that says they won't offer services
> >> outside of Germany. It's the same link I go to annually to renew my NIN
> >> subscription.
> >>
> >> Jill
> >
> > Due to changes in European tax law coming into force on 01.01.2015, we can only offer our service to users which have their tax domicile in Germany.
> >
> According to this email just received from NIN:
>
> "We'd certainly write an email to all affected customers if there were
> going to be tangible changes. There are changes to European VAT
> regulations which will make providing digital services to Europeans
> unnecessarily bureaucratic. At NIN, we ask our users for an email
> address to e.g. send a password to, and a name so we have a way to
> address them. We don't need to know their residential address, social
> security number, or tax domicile. And we'd like to keep it that way."
>

So no problem for non-Europeans, I gather.