As for the taxation part of your comment that is again an incorrect statement in fact it’s categoriclaly false.
If I as say a Brazillian company want to sell goods to an EU resident I do not perform any tax collection other than the local taxes in my country.
In fact it likely means that I can forgoe some local taxes like VAT or sales tax due to export.
You as the customer are obliged to pay all taxation related to this purchase which is usually paid when the item clears customs as the customs duty.
The only cases when one would collect tax on behalf of another country is when there is an explicit tax agreement to do so and process to support it. This is extremely rare and usually only happens within shared customs unions.
As a non-EU entity I legally can not collect VAT on behalf of EU customers because I have no way of paying that tax on their behalf.
Those weird things aside, this isn't about collecting VAT. It's about remaining within the confines of the law of the country you're conducting your affairs in.
It's like if I, as a Russian, wanted to sell a car to someone in the US, I'd have to ensure that my car meets whatever requirements/standards the US sets out for vehicles. If my vehicle doesn't meet those standards, which court do you think I'd have to appeal in, as a Russian selling a car to an American?
The GDPR has no mandate under existing international law.
The level of strawmaning is getting ridiculous when 2 countries sign a trade agreement you have 2 electorates which have a say in what is going to happen.
The GDPR extra-territorial application isn't just extra-territorial it's extra-judicial in which you have a law forced on you that you have had no saying in how it was passed and you have no saying it how it would be interpreted and or enforced.
This is tyrannical and I'm an EU citizen.
That’s not how this works. You are required to collect VAT and use the MOSS system to pay it quarterly.
Even if by some chance you are a small business that for an inexplicable reason does fall under this you can get out of this scheme fairly easily (VAT exemption rules apply) and more importantly VAT can be handled by a proxy e.g. a payment processor.
For businesses there is no VAT collection at all and all businesses must pay reverse VAT when purchasing (or providing) services from (and to) outside of the EU regardless if they fall under TBES or not.
