Hello

I'm trying to understand our international VAT obligations. Amazon is shipping our UK based FBA products across Europe, from the UK- ( they seem to have automatically updated settings to facilitate this from January this year). I understand they are collecting and submitting the VAT for these sales on our behalf. I wanted to check that this does not create a requirement to submit a return in these European Countries, or would we need to do this once we hit the distance selling threshold, even if Amazon handles the collection of VAT on our behalf?

We had previously registered for VAT in France as we tried fulfilment from there back in 2021 but this has been lying dormant since as it was not profitable for us.

Lastly - I presume if we did want to use Pan European from a French base, would we still need to submit "zero" tax returns as Amazon would be collecting all our VAT, or would there not even be the need to submit a return so long as we have the VAT number?

Thank you