It has been over a year since I received an email for Amazon saying thet I am non-EU established for VAT purposes and that I owe Amazon over 50000 for historical VAT. My disbursements were blocked.
At first I was confused because I am an e-resident of Estonia and my company is there. The whole point of e-residency is for the company to be EU-established even when personally living outside of EU. My Estonian accountant was confused, the Estonian authorities were confused, but in the end I accepted it and I paid Amazon this money, which was demanded from me with no detailed breakdown of what I was paying ( I had to specifically ask for it, and this breakdown report is completely unusable with the tax authorities or tax advisors). Also, after I paid off everything which took me almost 8 months, I was hoping to get some proof that I paid Amazon for this VAT, but no, again all I got was the same csv report.
Before all this happened, I was part of VAT services on Amazon and I paid my VAT regularly directly to the authorities as I was instructed. I was also part of the OSS program.
Now, in order to get my money back from the authorities, I need some proof that Amazon has paid VAT for me besides "we will honor our obligation". They cannot accept that! After counless emails, I realized that this is impossible, my requests and pleas were being completely ignored. All I eve got was: ask your tax advisor to help you with the refund.
I have contacted many tax advisors and I have been in contact with the German tax authorities. I am now working with a tax advisor for many months on this problem. Why so long? Because every time I ask Amazon for something, it takes weeks and month to get an answer.
The main issue I have now is: the VAT transaction reports on seller central from July 2021-May 2024 are wrong and they need to be corrected. The VAT resposibility is wrongly on the seller in those reports, when they should be on the marketplace. But when I ask for these to be corrected, because it is Amazon's mistake and I cannot upload it on the tax advisor's portal (it is automatic download) all I get is the same darn csv report.
I do not know anymore who to contact. Everyone keeps transfering my case to some mysterious "professional teams". I need actual help. PLEASE.
Best regards,
Snezana