With any luck after Leave we’ll be able to properly tax these offshire sellers which undermine our uk sellers via tax dodges allowed under EU law
Properly taxed how? They already pay VAT to the UK as per EU law (I know, the EU doing something sensible, who knew) so you’re proposing perhaps that whenever a British person buys something that a portion of the profit is sent back the UK as taxes? You going to extend that to the bakery down the road perhaps? What about Wiggle? Are you happy to send the (literally) tens of pounds profit they make from me to the Luxembourg government? You may be but I bet they just stop selling to markets where it’s not worth the fuss.
You do see the difference between bike-discount who sell a product in Germany to UK customers and Starbucks who sell a product in the UK to UK customers but ensure they make very little profit by buying their floor cleaner at 1M euros a bottle from Liechtenstein I assume? Or do you think Germany is a tax haven?
Ignoring for a minute that the moment the UK leaves the EU, the VAT from EU sellers will dry up (unless there’s a deal in place to cover it) it’s never going to work. The only thing the UK could do is put big old taxes on imports as they do with the US etc now. This will, of course, mean more people buy local than from the EU but that only works if there’s no free trade agreement as you can’t impose those rules within the EEA.
I think you may be able to legislate a physical business hiding profits in offshores but you’ll never be able to tax a physical business operating by mail order in the same way as the profits are being taxed locally. It’s almost like you’ve not really thought much about this but are just throwing concepts around like a chimp.