** All new UK sellers must be VAT registered REGARDLESS OF the £90k threshold?????????????
Hi All
I received an email re Vat reg & replied to say that I am UK based as is the business and I have not turned over any revenue as yet as I'm a brand new FBA seller. Is it correct that I must be Vat registered from day one to sell on Amazon regardless of the Gov.uk guidelines clearly stating the £90k threshold? HELP!
The email i received below when I replied to the initial Vat Reg email to say that I am UK based as is the business and I have not turned over any revenue as yet as I'm a brand new FBA seller Jan 2025.
Hello from Amazon Selling Partner Support,
Good day! This is Rama, and I hope this email finds you well.
I understand your concern with the email you have received regarding VAT registration in the United Kingdom.
Please be informed that, Under UK VAT legislation, if you are selling or intending to sell in the UK, you will need to register for UK VAT, and Amazon will be required to verify the validity of your registration.
Once you place inventory in the UK, you will be required to be VAT-registered and to upload your UK VAT number to Seller Central within 90 days.
As of August 1, 2024, all Selling on Amazon, Fulfilment by Amazon and other services previously provided by Amazon Services Europe S.à r.l. (ASE) are supplied by Amazon EU S.à r.l. (AEU). If your company is established in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium or Sweden, you will be invoiced by the AEU branch in your country of establishment.
As invoices are no longer issued from ASE in Luxembourg, B2B reverse charges will no longer apply if your company is established in a country where AEU has a branch. If your company is established in the UK and is recognised as a taxable person by applying for the VAT exemption programme, you will also be invoiced from your local AEU branch and charged UK VAT on fees where applicable.
Due to these updates, Amazon is pausing the acceptance of any new applications for the VAT exemption programme until further notice. Please be aware that applying for this programme will no longer allow you to receive invoices with 0% VAT on your Amazon seller fees going forward if you are established in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium or Sweden.
For more information, go to "Update to Amazon UK and EU seller services entity and VAT treatment":
https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/gp/help/GN6Q7DU46WW26LUU?referral=ARP4MMH8W8147_AUAIOIWNWH79D
For further information, please refer to below help page:
VAT requirements in the UK – Registration process:
https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/GSX2G7QWWGU4YESR
We wish you a great day!
** All new UK sellers must be VAT registered REGARDLESS OF the £90k threshold?????????????
Hi All
I received an email re Vat reg & replied to say that I am UK based as is the business and I have not turned over any revenue as yet as I'm a brand new FBA seller. Is it correct that I must be Vat registered from day one to sell on Amazon regardless of the Gov.uk guidelines clearly stating the £90k threshold? HELP!
The email i received below when I replied to the initial Vat Reg email to say that I am UK based as is the business and I have not turned over any revenue as yet as I'm a brand new FBA seller Jan 2025.
Hello from Amazon Selling Partner Support,
Good day! This is Rama, and I hope this email finds you well.
I understand your concern with the email you have received regarding VAT registration in the United Kingdom.
Please be informed that, Under UK VAT legislation, if you are selling or intending to sell in the UK, you will need to register for UK VAT, and Amazon will be required to verify the validity of your registration.
Once you place inventory in the UK, you will be required to be VAT-registered and to upload your UK VAT number to Seller Central within 90 days.
As of August 1, 2024, all Selling on Amazon, Fulfilment by Amazon and other services previously provided by Amazon Services Europe S.à r.l. (ASE) are supplied by Amazon EU S.à r.l. (AEU). If your company is established in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium or Sweden, you will be invoiced by the AEU branch in your country of establishment.
As invoices are no longer issued from ASE in Luxembourg, B2B reverse charges will no longer apply if your company is established in a country where AEU has a branch. If your company is established in the UK and is recognised as a taxable person by applying for the VAT exemption programme, you will also be invoiced from your local AEU branch and charged UK VAT on fees where applicable.
Due to these updates, Amazon is pausing the acceptance of any new applications for the VAT exemption programme until further notice. Please be aware that applying for this programme will no longer allow you to receive invoices with 0% VAT on your Amazon seller fees going forward if you are established in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium or Sweden.
For more information, go to "Update to Amazon UK and EU seller services entity and VAT treatment":
https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/gp/help/GN6Q7DU46WW26LUU?referral=ARP4MMH8W8147_AUAIOIWNWH79D
For further information, please refer to below help page:
VAT requirements in the UK – Registration process:
https://sellercentral-europe.amazon.com/help/hub/reference/GSX2G7QWWGU4YESR
We wish you a great day!
8 replies
Seller_hOZNPw7G8FIjl
UK residents do not have to be VAT registered if their 12-month rolling turnover is under the VAT threshold.
Looking at the content of that email it looks as though Amazon think you are outside the UK. The key phrase is "Once you place inventory in the UK".
Double check in settings that your place of establishment is UK and keep on at Seller Support till someone understands.
Seller_ZVAz3d5lZuGid
As above reply, and as said if you are under the £90K threshold and live in UK then you do not need to be VAT registered..
It all depends on where you actually live, not just that your business is registered in UK. If you do not live in UK, and will store your goods in UK then you DO need to be VAT registered here.
Seller_MT8rt0A2OpbCx
What address have you given Amazon. If it's a virtual office, i.e. one where several other businesses are registered, it seems, from many other posts in the forum, that Amazon see this as evidence your business is established outside the UK.
Seller_QuM1AZgzfU9x4
To be frank that response from Amazon is covering about four different policies and doesn't do a good job of delineating between them.
The first part which they have underlined seemingly for importance is only correct in certain circumstances. They don't mention any of those so really that whole statement is incorrect without them and taking what you state at face value about your location.
The next part about billing from August is correct.
When they talk about VAT exemption programme i have some doubts. I haven't seen anything about it not taking new applicants and given i'm still part of it i would've thought i'd have been made aware of any changes. Nor was it something that ever removed VAT from fees - there was a separate vehicle for getting VAT on fees removed which no longer works due to the billing changes last August. All the VAT exemption programme ever did was get Amazon to issue receipts for all orders.
