Hello

We have received an email that our Amazon.de account has been blocked from selling and shipping goods due to our failure to declare participation in the OSS system and provide a VAT number by the deadline.

The exact content below:

"We have taken this measure because your German VAT identification number was not uploaded and verified by the deadline, or you failed to provide evidence that you opted in to Union One-Stop Shop (OSS) together with the VRN used for reporting OSS. Under German VAT legislation, online marketplaces must collect a German VAT identification number from selling partners who are required to be tax-registered in Germany.

A VAT number is valid when the business name and tax address are accurate and matching between the information entered in Seller Central and data stored in the German Federal Tax Authority’s database. For more information and recommended actions, please review the help page .

If you do not store inventory in Germany, you can alternatively meet your German tax obligations by opting in to OSS. You will need to provide evidence that you report your EU Business-to-Consumer cross border sales to Germany via One-Stop Shop and mark the VAT identification number in Seller Central used for OSS. An overview of all EU27 Member state OSS portals and contact details for each country can be found here ."

We have been in the OSS system for 2 years, our VAT number has been listed and verified for 2 years on our seller account, the data has not changed, and all declarations are systematically sent.

In order to unblock the account we have to provide the VAT No. and declare participation in OSS, because we do not store goods in Germany, however, all the data on our account is correctly stated all the time and we have nothing to add there.

Please help, has anyone had this situation and what could be the reason?

Greetings

Hi Amazon,

Last Friday, our Amazon DE account was deactivated because the information linked to our VAT number no longer matched for the following reason:

Our VAT registration number was rejected for one or more of the following reasons:

1. The 'legal name' on your Seller Central account does not match the information stated in the German Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

2. The VAT registration number address on your Seller Central account does not match the information stated in the German Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt).

After checking both pieces of information, we concluded that all the details were correct and the VIES registry also confirmed that our VAT number is indeed valid. It has now been three days, and our account remains deactivated.

Does anyone know what actions we can or should take?

Hello,

I am registered as a business owner in Poland and am planning to sell FBM products from Poland on Amazon Germany. My annual sales do not exceed the limit of 10,000 euros. I have not registered for the VAT OSS system.

Amazon Germany has requested that I sign a German Tax declaration:

"For selling partners who are not carrying out taxable sales according to the provisions of the German VAT Code and are therefore not required be tax registered in Germany and to obtain a German VAT number, Amazon, as a marketplace operator, must obtain this declaration if you wish to continue to sell goods to customers in Germany.

The declaration asks you to confirm the following:

If I ship goods directly from outside the EU to German customers, for all these shipments there is no tax liability in Germany because the conditions specified in Section 3 Para 8 of the German VAT Code are not fulfilled."

Given my circumstances, can I sign this declaration?

Am I correct in understanding that as long as my annual sales remain below the 10,000 euro threshold and I am not shipping goods directly from Germany (all shipments will be made from Poland), I do not have any tax obligations in Germany?

Thank you for your assistance.