Chinese Amazon VAT fraud

Amazon says Register VAT immediately

Amazon sent another email to Chinese Sellers about VAT

We have received a copy of email sent by Amazon to sellers in China. This was sent on 1 pm on 09.08.2016 local time. And the email says Amazon has passed on sellers details to HMRC and they need to register for VAT immediately. We have reported similar email sent by Amazon sometime ago and this

Amazon's Email to Chinese Seller to Register VAT

Amazon is actually contacting Chinese Sellers to register VAT

We have been going through ongoing battle to block Chinese eBay and Amazon sellers to sell on their platform  without VAT registrations. We have already heard that Amazon and eBay are to be held liable, VAT fraud committed by a growing army of overseas sellers using their websites. The chancellor also gave tax inspectors new powers to warn and correctly collect