Recently, you may have received a notice from Amazon regarding French VAT compliance:
In order to comply with the new French anti-fraud regulations, all Amazon sellers should upload a French or European VAT number. If you need to register for VAT, we recommend that you start the process of applying for a VAT number immediately, as it can take several months for the tax authorities to complete the process.
By statute, Amazon is required to provide certain data about your Amazon business by January 31, 2020 to the French tax authorities. The data to be provided includes tax information such as your French VAT number.
We recommend that you take immediate action as French tax authorities may use your data to assess your compliance with French tax requirements. If the French tax authorities assess that you do not meet the relevant tax requirements, they may instruct Amazon to suspend your Amazon.fr account and prohibit you from selling to French buyers.
In this Green Circle posting, I would like to inform you all to get ready:
★Amazon France has sent out a notification in the backend which reads as follows;
Amazon is required to provide certain data about Amazon's business to the French tax authorities by January 31, 2020. The data to be provided includes tax information such as French VAT numbers. Amazon requires sellers to upload their French VAT number immediately or they may be blocked and prohibited from selling to French buyers.
Remote sales thresholds, simply put, that is, each European country for other European countries, the sale of goods across the border, set up a remote sales thresholds, in the case of not exceeding the remote sales limit, should be in the country of the shipment warehouse VAT. remote sales tax return is a quota, according to the cumulative natural year, if it exceeds a fixed amount, even if not in the local country of the shipment, but also have to be registered and declare the local VAT.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do sellers know if they need to have a French VAT number?
While there are a number of scenarios that require registration for French VAT, according to the above remote to be, the three most common scenarios for Amazon sellers are:
1. Your company is located outside of France, but stores inventory and delivers orders within France (including EU FBA warehouses, third-party warehouses, self-built warehouses, etc.);
2. You deliver goods to French buyers from another EU country/region (not a foreign country) where you keep stock and the total value of your sales to French buyers exceeds €35,000 per year;
3. You are incorporated in France and distribute goods from France to French buyers and your total annual sales in all sales channels exceeds €82,800 (subject to tax obligations as a local company).
- Sellers also need to check the Amazon back-end return settings, if set up incorrectly mislead the use of cross-border delivery orders, return to the country does not open inventory, but also due to inventory in the country to register VAT!
What are the details of the French VAT regulations?
A new French anti-fraud statute, which will go into effect on January 1, 2020, imposes additional requirements on online shopping malls like Amazon and third-party sales partner sellers like you.
The statute contains many parts, but they are not the same as those you will find in theAmazons open a storeThe most relevant parts are the reporting obligations and the French VAT compliance.
► Out of the reporting obligations, for sellers established in France, holding inventory in France or selling goods to French buyers, Amazon is required to share selected data with the French tax authorities. Reporting requirements include identification elements (e.g., legal name, email address), tax registration elements (e.g., valid tax and European VAT number, including French VAT number), bank information elements (e.g., bank account code), and Amazon transaction elements (e.g., revenue and transaction counts).
►In addition, the regulation establishes a process for the French tax authorities to require Amazon to suspend sellers who do not meet the French VAT requirements from selling goods on Amazon.fr and from selling goods to French buyers.
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