Andre Guzman

We are a UK based company which sells green coffee B2B. They way we are operating in the EU is buying the goods from an importer/warehouse based in Germany and selling it to our customers all over the EU. We've recently had some doubts from our customer's accountants who believe that a UK based company selling goods from Germany can be problematic. We were under the impression that we can operate in this way in Europe and that the Business customer has to self-account for VAT under the 'reverse charge' mechanism through their VAT return. Are we operating correctly or does VAT has to be declared in any way even though in most countries VAT for green coffee is zero rated?