Can Amazon UK deliver without VAT? Is there a grace period?

There are currently many merchants opening stores on the Amazon platform. For Amazon merchants, the UK site is a common site. Can Amazon UK site ship goods without VAT? Let’s learn more about it in detail in the following content.

Can Amazon UK deliver goods without VAT?

UK: No need to wait for a VAT number to ship and sell. There is a grace period for UK VAT, which means you only need to upload a valid UK VAT number within 90 days after the inventory is generated and use Amazon's VAT integration service. The VAT&EORI registration time is about 8-14 weeks, which is a maximum of 100 days, so sellers can ship shortly after submitting their VAT application. This is good news.

Germany: Before you start creating a shipment, be sure to upload your German VAT number.

Starting from July 1, 2021, sellers with German tax obligations need to upload a VAT number starting with DE on the seller platform, and the company name and address information on the seller platform must be consistent with the information on the VAT tax number certificate;

If the VAT number starting with "DE" is not successfully uploaded to the seller platform, please do not use German inventory and do not send it to the German warehouse. If the seller wants to get a screenshot of the storage address (which may be required for VAT registration) and create a German delivery plan, please delete the created goods immediately after getting the screenshot and close the German warehouse setting within 24 hours.

Considering the long VAT application time in Germany (12-16 weeks) and no grace period, Amazon recommends that you prepare tax numbers for multiple countries at the same time and implement warehouses in multiple countries. Before obtaining a German VAT number, sellers should first enter warehouses in Italy, France, etc., and use the Amazon Logistics European Fulfillment Network (EFN) or European Comprehensive Service (Pan-EU) program to support sales on German websites.

In summary, only the UK has a 90-day grace period for VAT, and other countries do not. However, Italy has the fastest VAT approval, so you can send goods to Italy first, then open the pan-European service, and then sell to other EU countries. In other words, as long as the seller registers the country of the European station at the same time, you can send goods to the UK and Italy.

From relevant information, you can know that Amazon UK can ship goods without VAT. As for how to do it, Amazon merchants can learn about it. I hope the above content may solve the problems of Amazon merchants.

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