You'd never guess that many Amazon sellers in Europe are facing a serious challenge! Lack of or inability to verify VAT registration information can result in severe restrictions on your selling privileges. This not only affects your daily operations, but also makes you miss out on the huge opportunities in the European e-commerce market.
Amazon is required to collect and verify sellers' VAT registration information in order to comply with the requirements of tax authorities in the EU, UK, Norway and Switzerland. The real kicker is that many sellers provide VAT information that doesn't match the information stored in official tax agency databases, making it impossible to pass the verification!
To complete compliance, you must do two things: first, register a valid VAT registration number with the tax authorities for all countries with tax obligations; and second, ensure that the VAT registration information you provide on the seller platform is consistent with the legal name and address in the official tax agency database.
More importantly, you must pay attention to the choice of VAT registration address. The types of addresses that Amazon accepts include legal addresses, VAT group representative addresses, fiscal representative addresses, tax agency addresses, service provider addresses, and more. If you provide an address that is not a legal address, you may need to provide additional proof of its relationship to your company.
If you have received a performance notice requesting valid VAT information, please log in to the SellerPlatform and go to the Tax Setup page to update the information immediately. Amazon will verify that the information you provide is consistent with the relevant tax organization's database. If the verification fails, your selling privileges may be restricted!
Want to restore your selling privileges? Simply log in to the seller's platform, provide valid VAT registration information and wait for Amazon to validate it. Please note that this process can take up to one week.
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