Can anyone help us start legal action against Amazon they are holding money for more that 20 days without any reason known to us. Our account health is perfect there is not other issues we know of. We opended several cases and call them dailey but always says we will get reply within 48hrs but they never did

Hi @Seller_Huz6FT08OxHAR

I just realised that you closed my discussion on the legal action against Amazon.

Please can you then advise on how to commence legal action against Amazon for illegally and unlawfully withholding and not releasing our funds (Disbursements). This relates to the confirmation of establishment status for VAT purposes in the UK. On 22nd August 2024, Amazon asked us to provide confirmation of our UK establishment status for VAT purposes. In the instructions they mentioned that we needed to provide a confirmation from the Individual and Small Business Compliance (ISBC) HMRC department. We obtained this confirmation letter from ISBC department of HMRC on 29th of August 2024 confirming that we are a UK established business for VAT purpose.

This letter confirming our UK establishment status from ISBC HMRC was submitted to the KYC-DRTAX-VERIFICATION TEAM (kyc-drtax-verification@amazon.co.uk).

Despite providing this letter from HMRC, the KYC-DRTAX-VERIFICATION TEAM (kyc-drtax-verification@amazon.co.uk) have rejected this as sufficient evidence of UK establishment status.

This action from AMAZON UK is ILLEGAL and UNLAWFUL as per UK LAW and we want to file a legal case against Amazon for harassment and financial loss we are suffering because our disbursements have been blocked.

Thanks.

i think all the affected sellers should commence class action (group legal action) against Amazon for this unlawful and illegal behaviour. Amazon has exhibited malicious intent and is behaving in an irresponsible manner putting hundreds if not thousands of businesses at risk of bankruptcy and insolvency by withholding disbursements without any legal basis.