I have a Amazon Business Seller account, do i need business license?
I have a Amazon Business Seller account, do i need business license?
I have a Amazon Business Seller account, do i need business license?
I have a Amazon Business Seller account, do i need business license?
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
Basically, if you don’t have an office or warehouse that is actually staffed and managed, in the UK, you are a NETP.
As such, you do not have the benefit of the threshold (85k, not £80k), and will have to register for VAT, the moment your goods hit the UK shore.
If your really not sure and want to confirm it, ring HMRC. They will tell you straight.
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
Depends on what you sell
Why are you asking ?
Seller_XWGbfU644XAkQ
yes broad band bill and my company name and company’s uk address mentioned on the bill
Seller_DZ68wUM93EE1W
Watching this thread as we’re in the same situation
Seller_XWGbfU644XAkQ
my address is not virutal, you have any idea about my situation and any solution?
Seller_XWGbfU644XAkQ
i really appreciate your concern . but still i am confused because i have read all the articles related to VAT registration of UK but i havn’t found my selft as NEPT. may be i am wrong but as my thinking i am not NEPT and i don’t have to register VAT until i cross the threshold of 80000
Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
Your admin department is not in the UK and your virtual address can’t receive stock therefore you’re a NETP
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
Basically, if you don’t have an office or warehouse that is actually staffed and managed, in the UK, you are a NETP.
As such, you do not have the benefit of the threshold (85k, not £80k), and will have to register for VAT, the moment your goods hit the UK shore.
If your really not sure and want to confirm it, ring HMRC. They will tell you straight.
Seller_XWGbfU644XAkQ
now i am satisfied
thanks for your precious time and concern
Seller_XWGbfU644XAkQ
yes now i understand. thanks for you time and concern
regards
Seller_YSVJTvJFHSin4
If you are JC World Ltd. then your proposed registered business address is most certainly virtual, and very different from your (residential) service address in Pakistan, and I think you know perfectly well that it is virtual, and I also think you are deliberately deceiving either yourself or others if you are claiming it isn’t. Hundreds of businesses are registered at that address and you can easily check it online. If you are under the illusion that this is not a virtual address but your own exclusive UK business address which you managed to get at a really cheap annual rate then you are very naive. But I think you know fine well and were just hoping no one would notice. Since when did providing someone with a broadband bill (presumably not in your name?) prove that an address was not virtual? If the bill is in your name, how coiuld that happen without your consent, and why didn’t you ask the person who sent you it? Why on earth would you have a broadband contract in your name in the UK if you don’t live here and never took one out?
There are lots of would-be sellers like you on Amazon. When Amazon stops them being sellers, because they are perceived as essentially trying to cheat the UK legal system, they usually come to this forum and pretend to be innocent and naive. But essentially Amazon stopped you from breaking UK law, because hundreds of non-UK sellers try to do what you have tried to do every week on the Amazon platform. They would get into a lot of legal trouble if they didn’t.
Seller_YSVJTvJFHSin4
In the light of that last paragraph you are most certainly NETP and it’s absolutely obvious to anyone who knows the meaning of words that you are.
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
Hey, no need. Have you actually read the rest of the thread?
That’s as bad as a bad customer accusing without knowledge.
People are allowed to make mistakes you know. And in this instance, it seems quite clear, that this was done in error.
Seller_YSVJTvJFHSin4
No one said people were not allowed to make mistakes. However, I wouldn’t say it is “clear” that he made a mistake. It’s at best arguable. I generally don’t feel that those who buy virtual business addresses in foreign countries and use them formally to register companies there are likely to be the most candid of people (even if it is legal).
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
Really, then what do you do if you need to register a company in India etc and you are UK based?
There are plenty of valid reasons for doing things this way, just because some abuse the system, does not automatically mean, that everyone is knowingly doing so.
It is a legal process and is needed for legal reasons! Don’t tar everyone who uses a process with the same brush. That’s just wrong.
Whether the OP did this knowingly or not, is no cause to berate them for it, as you simply don’t know this for a fact!
Have you not thought that maybe there are inexperienced people around, that don’t know how everything works and are getting side-tracked by someone who does?
Seller_YSVJTvJFHSin4
Again, I never said I knew it for a fact (that’s why in my original post I said “I think”, not “I know”).
Nor did I tar everyone with any brush. I just made the point that (again, in my opinion) the purchase of “virtual addresses” is often used to deceive. In this particular case the OP thought it meant he could get round being NETP even when the very words he was quoting told him he was NETP. And I don’t believe for a minute that he ever really thought he was not using a virtual address. How could he possibly think it was anything else?
You may of course be right that this was all down to inexperience (which is why I also suggested naivety). But it hardly matters that I see it as possibly a little less innocent. No one was harmed in the enunciation of our differing views.
Seller_mWupLYA8ORjoo
No, this is enough to run a business.
