Technology: A Key to Solve VAT Fraud?

This article is a follow up on a previous article from the same authors. In that article the authors concluded that keeping the current system for intra EU trade between businesses and addressing VAT fraud by using technological solutions may be the best way forward. In this article the authors address potential technological solutions that can help to solve the issue of VAT fraud. The technical solutions that are addressed are: split payment, blockchain technology, real time reporting and SAF-T. All these solutions have or are being considered by some EU Member States or even the European Commission