VAT + Sole Trader
Hi,
Amazon ask for VAT exemption proof -
- U.K based Seller
- Registered as a Sole Trader
- You are under the threshold of £85,000
And require -
(ii) A copy of your latest yearly tax return filed in your name, including the pages where the sole trader income as been reported.
I have sent this and they still seem to reject it (although I am trying again) - it highlights all their 3 criteria mentioned above. Their emails also whilst written in English do not actually make much sense eg - We would like to clarify that the exemption you have declared your VAT registration exemption status. There are more. So I am not sure they actually understand what I am sending to them.
Has anyone else had this issue and how did they get around it? So frustrating!!
Many thanks
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
Do you mean you are trying to register your exemption so that you don’t pay vat on seller fees
And not the invoice sending ‘exemption’ ?
Seller_Ce8pCzhbVPubz
So just to clarify… you’re a UK Sole Trader trading below the 85k and you are not registered for VAT with HMRC (so no VAT is included in your product prices)… is that correct?
Seller_Ce8pCzhbVPubz
Hhmmm… would you happen to have a link to this info as I didn’t know this, I could be doing myself out of some profit here.
Winston_Amazon
Hey @Bureau-Elegance,
Do you have an update?
Regards,
Winston
Seller_Ce8pCzhbVPubz
I wasn’t aware of this issue of wrongly being charged vat of seller fees until this @The_Little_Shop and @PeterB provided more info, so thank you for that.
@Bureau-Elegance - That’s very strange why they are not accepting your document. 
I sent Amazon a message on Saturday asking to be changed to vat exempt status, they came back to me on Sunday asking for a tax return, so I sent through my 20-21 return and they came back this morning saying as from today i’m vat exempt and can claim back vat on seller fees from mid-January.
Seller_3di7P6gi1JyqG
They refused to pay me back mine without a certificate of incorporation, I forwarded my tax return, however I have been trading since April '22 so the '21-'22 tax year showed only employment income maybe thats why they refused?
