When selling goods on Amazon in Europe, you will be asked to enter your local tax number VAT number. Even if it is a Japanese company, you can not escape it. Many EU countries, especially the UK, are more strict with handling VAT registration at the time of sale by non-EU companies on the European Amazon. Opti always checks the latest tax and legal information on the site and supports compliance-based response.
Economic Operator Registration & Identification Number (EORI Number)is a number required for importing to the European Union member countries or exporting from the European Union member countries. The EORI number specifies the company holding the EORI number and it is used for shipping at EU clearance. Importing and exporting of goods will be stopped in many cases if there is no EORI number.
The EORI number is mandatory when selling goods using the local warehouse at the European market place. Our company supports the registration of EORI number, boasting many achievements.
Amazon and eBay etc. provide a service called Fulfilment By Amazon (FBA). This is because your property is kept in the warehouse of these marketplaces and when these items are sold on the marketplace, the marketplace will do the packaging and shipping work on behalf of your company.
In such a case, you may need to register the local tax and declare it. We support all cases from simple FBA cases to more complicated cases. Please do not hesitate to contact us。
We handle a lot of VAT registration and VAT declaration on Amazon.uk. For this reason, it is possible to make a declaration in accordance with the actual situation of Europe Amazon, not mere tax consulting.
One of them is the automatic declaration from Amazon transaction data. We will perform different taxation processing automatically for each destination and buyer from customer's transaction data.
When selling on European Amazon, we will initially attack from Amazon UK, but there are many companies / individuals who will subsequently enter Amazon.fr and Amazon.de. Recently, there are an increasing number of companies / individuals who simultaneously set up multiple Amazons and simultaneously sell on multiple Amazons.
Our company supports tax registration and tax return declaration on multiple Amazon`s, it can be tackled using one stop.
When selling goods in Europe, we must consider prices, taxes, and profits. In particular, regarding sales at the market place such as Amazon and eBay, in addition to direct selling from Japan, when using a local warehouse and using multiple local warehouses, there are various cases, such as export handling by logistics companies It is from.
We also support pricing strategies to support overseas promotion of clients.
If you company is located in Europe, you will have threshold. If below threshold, you don't need to register in such member states.
However, if you are non EU company, you should register in the country of your Amazon FBA warehouse.
Country | Threshold for EU company |
Austria | 35,000Euro |
Belgium | 35,000Euro |
Bulgaria | BGN 70,000 |
Croatia | HRK 270,000 |
Cyprus | 35,000Euro |
Czech Republic | CQK 1,140,000 |
Denmark | DKK 280,000 |
Estonia | 35,000Euro |
Finland | 35,000Euro |
France | 35,000Euro |
Germany | 100,000Euro |
Greece | 35,000Euro |
Hungary | 35,000Euro |
Ireland | 35,000Euro |
Italy | 35,000Euro |
Latvia | 35,000Euro |
Lithuania | 35,000Euro |
Luxembourg | 100,000Euro |
Malta | 35,000Euro |
Netherlands | 100,000Euro |
Poland | PLN 160,000 |
Portugal | 35,000Euro |
Romania | RON 118,000 |
Slovakia | 35,000Euro |
Slovenia | 35,000Euro |
Spain | 35,000Euro |
Sweden | SEK 320,000 |
United Kingdom | GBP 70,000 |
If you sell goods in Japan, and if you reach to 10M JPY annually, you will be required to file Japanese Consumption Tax.
In addition, if you need to deduct your import JCT in Japan, you should register JCT in Japan.
Selling goods in Amazon or eBay or Rakuten can make you entrepreneur of global business. However, global business needs global tax knowledge and compliance.
We OPTI will support your VAT, JCT, Sales Tax Registration, and try to support your company in tax field.
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