I would be grateful for any advise on the following situation. Apologies for the long windiness of it all.

My stock is stored in the UK FBA warehouses. As well as selling this stock in the UK I also sell across the various EU marketplaces using EFN or, as I think its now called, "Remote fulfilment with FBA"

Since August the 1st 2024 sellers on the Amazon UK platform are now responsible for claiming the VAT back on seller fees and FBA fees. Having researched various options I signed up to LinkMyBooks to extract the VAT data and assign to my newly created XERO account.

For the most part I am quite impressed with how LinkMyBooks seems to save me a lot of headache with its VAT calculation. However, I am still very confused about why some of the charges relating to EFN are classified as "Reverse Charge Expenses (20%)" Specific examples, say related to the German marketplace, are as follows:

"Amazon.de - Amazon FBA Fees - FBA Per Unit Fulfilment Fee - International Orders"

"amazon.de - Amazon FBA Fees - Refunded Shipping Chargeback - International Orders"

"amazon.de - Amazon FBA Fees - Shipping Chargeback - International Orders"

"amazon.de - Amazon FBA Fees - Giftwrap Chargeback - International Orders"

As they are clasified as ""Reverse Charge Expenses (20%)" by LinkMyBooks it seems like I won't be able to claim the VAT back on these items. I suspect Giftwrap and Shipping are something that should indeed be reverse charge as these are separate items that Amazon faciliate.

The VAT on Amazon Commission, Digital Services Fee and Variable closing fees seem to be correctly assigned to be claimable from the UK tax authorities.

So my question is as follows: should all or any of these items that are related to EFN orders for stock stored in the UK have the VAT reclaimable via HMRC and therefore be classified by LinkMyBooks as 20% VAT on Expense? The sample I have given are from .de but I also have similar items for the .fr .es .it .nl .ie etc marketplaces.

Then of course there is the issue of VAT invoices from Amazon. I just cannot make head nor tail of them. It doesn't seem to bear much resemblance to the data coming out of LinkMyBooks and that could be an issue with the inevitable VAT reclaim I am going to put forward with HMRC which no doubt be spot checked due to the size of the claim and who will no doubt require invoices. I just assume that data from LinkMyBooks will not be sufficient for HMRC? I appreciate in order for me to get a response from the point related to Amazon VAT invoices I would need to be more specific. However, clarification on the previous point would be helpful in getting me in the right direction.

Thank you in advance.

S