On Mon, 2020-07-13 at 12:55 +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2020 at 12:49, Huge huge@huge.org.uk wrote:
Really? I've just had a quick look at the signup pages and I can't see that. I only let my account lapse a couple of months ago, as well. First time I've now been on Usenet since the early 80's :(
https://news.individual.net/register/step1.php
"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. "
Oh, yeah, ta.
Have to say I don't understand why EU tax law would require this.
AFAIK, they've been ignoring that for years. Like I said, my account only expired (at my choice) in April this year, and most of the people I know who were on Usenet were using NIN.
IIRC, it was something to do with VAT.