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3.6.397August 29, 2026

Reviewed Records Stay Protected During Maintenance

2 changes
Security2 items
  • Reviewed legal data and calculation evidence retain their access protections while VAT Engine service permissions are updated.
  • VAT Engine services receive only the access required for normal account and calculation activity.
3.6.396August 29, 2026

VAT Engine Is Now Listed on Two More Review Platforms

3 changes
Improvement3 items
  • The homepage launchpad section now includes official validated badges and direct VAT Engine review links for SourceForge and Top Business Software.
  • Launchpad badges, the homepage rate card, and the footer logo now reserve their correct proportions before deferred images load, reducing unexpected page movement.
  • The privacy policy now explains the limited SourceForge badge request made from the public homepage.
3.6.395August 29, 2026

Reviewed OSS Threshold Data Is Better Protected

2 changes
Security2 items
  • Normal account activity can read reviewed Article 59c thresholds but cannot alter their approved country coverage.
  • Threshold updates become selectable only as complete reviewed EU Member State packages, keeping unchanged country coverage available.
3.6.394August 29, 2026

OSS Country Coverage Is More Reliable

3 changes
Fix2 items
  • Reviewed OSS threshold releases must cover every EU Member State before they can be selected.
  • A country-specific legal update can no longer make unchanged threshold coverage disappear for other Member States.
Security1 item
  • Reviewed threshold packages cannot be authored or changed by normal application sessions.
3.6.393August 29, 2026

OSS Threshold Status Uses Statutory Review

7 changes
Fix5 items
  • The OSS Overview now checks both the current and preceding calendar years using the reviewed threshold for the seller establishment country.
  • Polish and other non-euro establishments are measured in their fixed statutory national-currency equivalent instead of a moving daily reporting conversion.
  • Incomplete classification, source time, scope, or currency evidence no longer produces an understated exceeded or remaining result.
  • A declarant-policy label by itself no longer counts as completed customs grouping evidence.
  • Threshold notifications now use the same governed evidence as the dashboard and are withheld when required evidence is incomplete.
Improvement2 items
  • The OSS dashboard shows the establishment country, native threshold currency, preceding-year comparison, exact evidence cutoff, and reviewed policy release.
  • Threshold comparison is clearly separated from sole-establishment evidence, registration status, and filing readiness.
3.6.392August 29, 2026

Distance-Sale and Customs Review Is More Precise

6 changes
Fix4 items
  • Distance-sale shadow review now applies the dispatch-origin condition from 1 January 2027 and preserves the rule that applied through 2026.
  • Article 59c review uses the statutory threshold in the seller establishment currency; Polish establishments use PLN 42,000 rather than a moving daily EUR conversion.
  • Shopify product details remain customs review hints and no longer count as completed customs declaration evidence.
  • Identical goods entered on two authenticated customs declaration lines produce two temporary EUR 3 items, while one grouped line produces one item.
Improvement2 items
  • Shadow review labels now describe the current-year and preceding-year statutory thresholds without assuming every seller uses EUR.
  • Transactions in another currency stay visibly unresolved until an approved VAT conversion policy is available.
3.6.391August 29, 2026

Shadow Tax Review Is More Reliable

9 changes
Fix4 items
  • Temporary customs amounts use authenticated customs declaration items when available, rather than physical quantity, product metadata, or Shopify line count.
  • Distance-sale review now keeps new means of transport and assembly or installation evidence explicit instead of assuming those exclusions are absent.
  • From 1 January 2027, an effective active Union OSS registration can supply the statutory destination-taxation option while missing or inactive evidence remains unresolved.
  • Current-year statutory-threshold review stops at the exact transaction event time, so a later same-day order does not change an earlier shadow decision.
Improvement3 items
  • The imported-event review explains customs declaration grouping and keeps the distance-sale payment representative separate from the import VAT representative.
  • Interrupted shadow evaluations recover automatically without creating another legal decision for the same evidence.
  • Calculation retries now treat a changed source tag as a conflicting request instead of silently retaining different source attribution.
Security2 items
  • Immutable legal-dependency links cannot be appended after a shadow decision is sealed, and threshold evidence must belong to the same account event as its source revision.
  • Calculation retention uses one audited account operation; direct evidence deletion remains blocked.
3.6.390August 28, 2026

Imported-Goods Shadow Review Is More Precise

9 changes
Improvement3 items
  • Imported-goods shadow review now separates IOSS eligibility, actual IOSS use, registration evidence, and filing readiness.
  • The EUR 150 assessment uses saved consignment components and keeps incomplete grouping or currency evidence visibly unresolved.
  • Future import-liability review uses the import event date and keeps import and distance-sale representative evidence separate.
Fix4 items
  • Import into the destination Member State is no longer treated the same as import through another Member State when IOSS use is unavailable.
  • Qualifying low-value imports can show the temporary EUR 3 per-declaration-item customs amount for the applicable July 2026 through June 2028 period.
  • Gift-card shadow decisions remain available as an explicit unsupported treatment instead of failing while looking up a missing tax class.
  • Manually supplied commerce data is no longer presented as verified connected-platform evidence.
Security2 items
  • Connected-platform evidence and manual account data remain separate when shadow decisions and later reviews are created.
  • Incomplete or conflicting legal evidence remains unresolved instead of being replaced with a filing-ready assumption.
3.6.389August 28, 2026

VAT Calculation History Is More Traceable

15 changes
Feature5 items
  • New authenticated VAT calculations now return their existing transaction ID as the calculation identity and retain rate and calculation evidence before success is returned.
  • Calculation requests can use an optional idempotency key with an explicit transaction date so safe retries return the original result instead of creating another record.
  • Transaction details now show the recorded rate source, evidence status, effective date, mapping and calculation versions, replay status, and available evidence references.
  • CSV export version 2 adds calculation and rate evidence columns while the existing version 1 format remains the default.
  • Imported-event review now includes a separate expected-treatment shadow section for legal components, scheme eligibility, registration evidence, filing readiness, dependencies, and unresolved issues.
Improvement4 items
  • Ledger labels distinguish verified rate evidence, legacy rate evidence, and unavailable rate evidence without treating a matching numeric rate as proof.
  • Commerce imports from direct sync, webhooks, history, and reconciliation converge on the same source revision and shadow evaluation when they describe the same event.
  • Expected VAT liability is evaluated separately from registration and filing readiness, so a missing registration does not erase an otherwise resolvable legal treatment.
  • Expected-treatment review now explains the dispatch origin, current and preceding calendar years, establishment evidence, and destination-taxation choice used for Article 59c.
Fix3 items
  • Intra-EU goods dispatched from stock outside the supplier’s Member State of establishment no longer consume that Article 59c threshold counter.
  • A missing dispatch country or incomplete Article 59c evidence now stays visibly unresolved instead of being replaced with the supplier’s establishment country.
  • Destination VAT liability is shown separately from the choice between Union OSS and a local VAT registration.
Security3 items
  • Calculation retries avoid retaining the original retry value supplied by the customer.
  • Valid transaction identifiers owned by another account remain indistinguishable from nonexistent records.
  • Shadow treatment remains isolated from filing, ledger totals, locked periods, and the current Shopify compatibility workflow.
3.6.388August 28, 2026

Product Classification Is Clearer in Tax Review

12 changes
Security1 item
  • Connected-platform source data can no longer supply or impersonate VAT Engine product decisions; verified decisions are stored through a separate server-owned path.
Feature3 items
  • Imported-event review now shows the saved product classification separately from transaction tax treatment and reconciliation status.
  • The product panel shows the selected tax class, supply facts, mapping precedence, and whether the product still needs review.
  • Product decisions retain their rule and policy lineage so a later mapping change does not rewrite the earlier review history.
Improvement4 items
  • Product mapping now follows one deterministic precedence policy that can be reused by supported commerce integrations.
  • A successful product match no longer implies that the observed VAT rate, amount, liable party, or filing treatment has also been approved.
  • Older imported rows without a saved product decision keep their existing review state until they are reprocessed.
  • Existing Shopify ledger and filing behavior remains unchanged while the common tax-treatment workflow is completed and verified.
Fix4 items
  • Products with very large tag or supported metafield sets now continue through synchronization with an explicit review state when the relevant signal set is incomplete.
  • Zero-rate and exemption treatment is no longer shown as a frozen product fact; those outcomes remain part of the separate tax-treatment review.
  • Updating a product mapping can add a new decision without rewriting the connected-platform source record or changing its import identity.
  • A repeated import with changed product evidence no longer replaces the saved product decision until the connected transaction is refreshed.
3.6.387August 27, 2026

Tax Decisions and VAT Rate History Are More Traceable

34 changes
Feature14 items
  • The authenticated Compliance workspace now shows the reviewed official sources, effective dates, known gaps, and safety boundaries planned for cross-platform tax decisions.
  • The source register separates commerce-platform evidence from VAT law and clearly marks Member State options that cannot be automated without an approved national rule set.
  • Specified legal scenarios now show gap-free time segments separately from guidance. If a segment requires more than one legal source, every listed source must apply.
  • Each required legal source now shows the exact provisions and evidence it supports, preventing an unrelated section of the same document from being used for a tax decision.
  • Historical OSS, marketplace, and IOSS scenarios now follow each published VAT Directive consolidation from July 2021 through the April 2025 baseline.
  • Source labels now distinguish official non-binding consolidations from binding acts published in the Official Journal, so reference documents are not presented as legal authority.
  • Source and review-reason checks must be renewed within 180 days and sooner after an upstream change, official authority notice, or rule-pack release.
  • The temporary low-value customs-duty scenario now links its binding Council regulation as well as supporting Commission and commerce-platform guidance.
  • A baseline and amendment ledger keeps the selected VAT Directive consolidation distinct from the import-liability changes applying from July 2028.
  • Current Article 201 coverage now ends on June 30, 2028, so the superseded text cannot support decisions after its replacement applies.
  • The page also shows the shared review reasons that future commerce integrations will use consistently, regardless of source platform.
  • Tax review records can now preserve an immutable dependency snapshot, decision history, and several ordered findings without changing the imported transaction facts.
  • Imported events that predate deterministic replay are clearly marked as legacy and are not presented as filing-ready by the compatibility view.
  • Automatic product and supply classification, legal-treatment resolution, and replay remain later milestones.
Improvement8 items
  • TEDB rate observations now retain an immutable fingerprint of the exact source response together with a separate fingerprint of its normalized meaning.
  • Source applicability dates remain separate from retrieval time, so a later observation cannot silently move a VAT rate’s legal date boundary.
  • Detected rate differences are held for review instead of being published automatically.
  • Administrators can compose complete reviewed rate-data versions, approve or reject drafts, and withdraw a previously approved version without rewriting its audit history.
  • Partial-country updates retain traceable reviewed data for every unaffected EU country instead of presenting several sources as one snapshot.
  • VAT rate lookup now prefers an approved version for its covered dates and uses older recorded history only when no approved version covers the date.
  • Public version pinning, response-level provenance, and exact replay remain planned.
  • Existing source snapshots remain unchanged when a new reviewed version is created or its review state changes.
Fix12 items
  • Each reviewed tax source now keeps its approved document type and legal effect together with its exact official link.
  • A consolidated reference document cannot be relabeled as a binding Official Journal act while retaining the same source identity.
  • The shared low-value eligibility contract now rejects incomplete cost breakdowns, unsupported exchange-rate policies, unapproved rate providers, and evidence that cannot reproduce the saved threshold result.
  • Successful reconciliations no longer display a legacy-unreconciled reason when there is no finding to review.
  • Partial VAT-rate updates are blocked if another approved update has replaced their inherited base, preventing untouched countries from reverting to older reviewed values.
  • Partial VAT-rate updates are also blocked when a newer reviewed range overlaps only part of the period, so inherited countries cannot revert on those dates.
  • Reviewed rate versions and reconciliation findings are sealed as complete records, preventing later additions from changing what an approved decision represents.
  • Reviewed VAT-rate cache entries stay current after temporary cache-service outages during approval or withdrawal.
  • VAT-rate versions created before complete source sealing remain visible for audit but are clearly inactive until an administrator recreates them from current evidence.
  • VAT-rate cache entries remain aligned with reviewed-source eligibility during upgrades, rollbacks, and service restarts.
  • Imported events without reconciliation findings now open normally in the review queue instead of interrupting the Integrations page.
  • Homepage launchpad badges now use consistent descriptive link names for screen readers and other assistive technology.
3.6.386August 25, 2026

VAT Engine Artwork Is Easier to Recognize

2 changes
Fix2 items
  • Browsers and external product listings can now find the current VAT Engine icon at the standard website location instead of retaining obsolete domain artwork.
  • Browser tabs, bookmarks, device home screens, and installed apps continue to use the complete VAT Engine artwork family.