VAT Establishment/Disbursements
I've received the dreaded Prove your EU establishment email, threatening to suspend disbursements.
I have a few Amazon accounts, but this is for an Estonian business (via e-residency), that is established in Estonia and the UK, however i don't have a physical presence in the EU. I've been 100% compliant. I've paid all VAT via VAT services/AVASK and am registered for OSS.
However am I right in thinking I'm going to receive a duplicate VAT bill from Amazon? Will they stop disbursements and will this affect disbursements for my other businesses.
Are they offering instalment plans? Am I going to have to request VAT refunds from all countries and will AVASK sort this?
Any help/advice appreciated.
VAT Establishment/Disbursements
I've received the dreaded Prove your EU establishment email, threatening to suspend disbursements.
I have a few Amazon accounts, but this is for an Estonian business (via e-residency), that is established in Estonia and the UK, however i don't have a physical presence in the EU. I've been 100% compliant. I've paid all VAT via VAT services/AVASK and am registered for OSS.
However am I right in thinking I'm going to receive a duplicate VAT bill from Amazon? Will they stop disbursements and will this affect disbursements for my other businesses.
Are they offering instalment plans? Am I going to have to request VAT refunds from all countries and will AVASK sort this?
Any help/advice appreciated.
11 replies
Winston_Amazon
Hey there @Seller_CaLuDGa8aUCi3,
How has this VAT Establishment been treating you?
Seller_CaLuDGa8aUCi3
Not good.
Disbursements still on hold.
No repsonse to emails sent to mdri-exec-escalations@amazon.co.uk
Avask/Amazon Vat Services think Amazon have made a mistake.
I need some clarification so that I can start claiming back VAT if required. My OSS quarterly fillings are due a week today. I can use this filling to request a VAT refund, however I need clarification first. If i miss this deadline, it will be another 3 months before I can reclaim VAT. I've told Amazon this but don't hear anything back.
I've now ran out of stock and can't afford to/risk ordering more stock if disbursements are going to be withheld. I can't pay some suppliers already.
I've done nothing wrong to cause this, yet may lose the business as it can't continue to trade without income.
If there is anything you could do I would appreciate it, the business is affected is OÜ Leggett Group EU
Seller_CaLuDGa8aUCi3
Still no replies from mdri-exec-escalations@amazon.co.uk
Seller_UpVEqmG9BUDRX
Hi @Seller_CaLuDGa8aUCi3, any news on your case? We are in the identical situation now and we do not receive any responses from mdri-exec with all our disbursements being blocked.
Seller_CaLuDGa8aUCi3
Hi, Sadly no response from Amazon. The only things I have got, are a copy of the transactions and the generic email telling me to pay. They will have to wait, I can't pay until I get the VAT refunds, and with OSS it requires you to get refunds from each individual country.
Amazon couldn't care less. My existing funds are on hold and I've sold out of stock. I have no intention of selling again until the hold us lifted.
Good luck with you situation, hopefully you can raise the cash until the refunds come through
Seller_UpVEqmG9BUDRX
Hi! Just receivedthier response and basically I am stuck in the same situation as you now. The stock is still there, but I don't really want to send more, just giving them our money for free. The funny thing is that I was using the amazon VAT services, and they made this mistake still. So we are in the same boat now. Frankly speaking I was thinking about filing a law suit about this situation.
Seller_CaLuDGa8aUCi3
I would join you in a court case, but i haven't got the funds or time unfortunately.
VAT Services are now passing on fines for non payment of VAT, as i stopped paying VAT the moment they told me that they should be paying it. You couldn't make it up. A complete shambles.
Seller_T6PSDSRD0yacy
hello. I am on the same boat. I have estonian company through eresidency as well. I dont know what is your recent situation but amazon took 24k euros from my account. took all the money from my amazon balance and my bank account. good luck
