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(4) To combat VAT fraud, it is important to require payment service providers to keep sufficiently detailed records and to report certain cross-border payments determined as such by reason of the location of the payer and the location of the payee. It is therefore necessary to define the concepts of location of the payer and location of the payee and also the means to identify those locations. The location of the payer and of the payee should only trigger the record keeping and reporting obligations for the payment service providers which are established in the Union and those obligations should be without prejudice to the rules laid down in Directive 2006/112/EC and in Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 282/2011 Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 282/2011 of 15 March 2011 laying down implementing measures for Directive 2006/112/EC on the common system of value added tax (OJ L 77, 23.3.2011, p. 1). as regards the place of a taxable transaction.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-13 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.