Hi,

I'm currently in a catch 22 situation with my VAT registration in Germany. Namely, the Tax authorities in DE are asking for some additional document to proceed with the registration which is a Seller Certificate from Amazon. They even included instruction on how to get it in Seller Central:

Amazon Certificate: Sellers can download the Seller Certificate in their Seller Central: Help -> Get support -> Selling on Amazon -> Spain and Germany VAT - Amazon seller certificate

I did the same, and got the following answer from Amazon support:

The requisites for obtaining Amazon Seller Certificate for Germany are that the Selling Partner:

1. has signed up for the Amazon FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) program in any European Amazon Marketplace; and

2. has shipped an item through FBA in any European Amazon Marketplace in the last year.

I am a new seller (US company) with a completely new account. That said, according to the EU or rather DE law I cannot hold, move or sell any inventory unless I'm VAT registered. And now, to get VAT registered I need a seller certificate, but to obtain it I need to ship an item through EU marketplace which I cannot do unless VAT registered.

Am I missing something out? Please advise on what to do in this case.

Thanks

Gav

We're about to report our first quarter on Amazon. All the transactions from customers are handled by the transaction report, so that's fine. However, I'm baffled by the seller fee invoices. Shouldn't we be elligble to get back VAT from the partner carrier shipment that shipped our products from Sweden to Germany or other fees related to Amazon? I can't find the fee anywhere, the only thing I can find is seller invoices related to "Gebühren für Verkaufen bei Amazon" and "Gebühren im Zusammenhang mit Versand durch Amazon", is the fee included in here?

Furthermore, why's there a VAT 25 percent on all the seller invoices for the DE marketplace? We're a swedish company where the VAT is 25 percent, but all the charges are in EUR and downloaded on the German portal. I'm a bit confused.

Thanks

Our story in short:

Bulgarian company with Bulgarian VAT number wants to sell FBA from Germany.

To sell and hold stock in Germany the Bulgarian company must have VAT registration in Germany.

The Bulgarian company contacted AVASK because is a service provider for Tax and accounting, all the documents were provided to AVASK, all approved.

AVASK won't finish up registration because Amazon DE Seller Certificate is needed from Amazon.

No information from Amazon to my request where to get the certificate .

The company is stuck in the middle now.

Please Amazon, clarify where the Amazon DE Seller Certificate can be downloaded.