@zimmer-media To answer your joke, this is what developers have to consider. The EU is the 4th or 5th largest e-commerce market in the world. The top 3 markets do not have these restrictive issues. The top 1 market is 8 times the size of the EU. Of global e-commerce the EU represents about 8% of the world market. It does not make sense to focus a core of a software around such a small market segment. Especially when a lot of the requirements in that market segment are against best practices in the other top e-commerce markets. There are known conversion killers that the EU puts into place.
With that being said, I don't want to come off anti-EU. America is the 2nd largest e-commerce market. We do not and will not support about 50% of American tax systems, because they are too complicated to upkeep.
To come back to the EU, I have asked many times for people to create something we can go by. All I get is linked documents. I cannot read in french, german, or other languages. But If someone can provide me a bulleted list of what is needed, we can add those features. The whole EU law is a mess. Look at our forums, look at other forums. Users are arguing all over the place of what the requirements are. No one really understands them, I know I for one don't and I have seen our EU members argue over them as well.
To sum it up, give us a list. We can try to add as many as possible. When we can cherry pick features out of posts, we add them as well. We have added things to the dev path of 1.1.x from the posts on this forum to help with compliance, but if someone could get us a whole list together that would be the best.