How to reclaim Import VAT from HMRC through our Amazon Seller Central account
Hello,
Is there anybody in here who was successful to reclaim their import VAT from HMRC?
I would be glad and appreciate getting help and recommendation from someone who had a similar issue.
My Ltd company is located in Europe (Schengen Union) and since Brixit we shipped a couple of times to FBA UK. Each time we shipped our goods to the FBA UK, the HMRC at the custom charged us the Import VAT Tax.
Unfortunately, so far we did not enroll for PVA (Postponed VAT Accounting) therefore, we should pay the custom VAT at the custom.
As you know because our company is located in Europe we are exempted to pay any Import VAT, therefore each time we shipped our goods, we received Form C79 (The green one) from HMRC as an Import VAT certificate through Avalara.
This is the certificate that we can request to reclaim our import VAT. I contacted them many times to Avalara and also Amazon but they are just passing me between each other without helping us how to reclaim the import VAT.
The last update regarding this issue was that Avalara said they are doing our VAT services through Amazon back-end and we can not directly request Avalara to send the request to HMRC to reclaim those import VAT amounts. It should be through the additional VAT template. They said I have to fill in the data for each certificate in the “AdditionalDataTemplate” and upload it between the 4th to 7th of each month while filing my VAT.
When each time I tried to upload the AdditionalDataTemplate, I received a message “The transaction date does not fall in the open data period.” So this error caused my record did not consider by Amazon. (They automatically ignore AdditionalData Templates which have errors)
I contacted Amazon many times and the only thing is that they replied a generic answer to me as below.
Please fill in the questionnaire in order to record your request. You will find information about the timelines to process your request and the next steps in the questionnaire.
Link for questionnaire:
https://amazoneu.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6Xtm4LR5D3qNr2S
But this is not related to the missing additional VAT records that I need to pay to Avalara in order to modify the previous months.
I am sure here there are European companies who had a similar issue like us. I hope this topic would be helpful for me and other sellers with similar conditions.
Many thanks!
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