What makes amazon fba sellers different from an ordinary filing?
Fulfilment inventory stored in another country is physical presence, which can create both an indirect-tax registration obligation and a permanent-establishment question for the seller's own company. An ordinary preparer applies the general rule and stops there, which is how the relief in the specific provision goes unclaimed.
Can you work with my existing accountant?
That is how most of these engagements run. They keep the domestic file, we take the cross-border piece, and the boundary is agreed in writing so nothing is done twice or missed.
Can I reclaim the import tax I paid on my stock?
Often, where you imported the goods in your own name and you are registered in that country. In many systems import tax on goods brought in for resale is recoverable by the importer through their own return, which makes who is named as importer on the entry documents a decision with money attached to it. Sellers lose that recovery in two ways: by letting someone else act as importer of record and then holding an entry document naming that person, or by not being registered at the point of import. Both are avoidable, and neither is easy to repair afterwards.
Am I paying tax twice on the same sales?
It happens, and there are two distinct versions of it. On indirect tax, the same sale can be accounted for twice where the marketplace collects and remits and the seller also reports it as their own supply. The correction there is a reconciliation, not a payment. On profits, two countries can each claim the same income, and relief then comes either from a credit in one country for tax paid in the other, or from the treaty between them. Neither relief is automatic. Both are claimed, and both need the underlying figures to agree across the two filings.
Does storing goods abroad always create a taxable presence?
Not always, and the two limbs separate here. For indirect tax, holding stock in a country is commonly enough on its own to require registration. For tax on your profits the question is narrower, and where a treaty applies it is governed by that treaty: whether an activity of that kind amounts to a presence depends on the wording that actually applies to you, and on what else you, or anyone acting for you, does in that country. It is a question to be read and answered on your own facts, not assumed in either direction.
Can I get back tax the marketplace collected in error?
Sometimes, and the route depends on who accounted for it. Where the marketplace collected and remitted, the correction usually has to run through the marketplace, because the amount went into their return rather than yours. Where you collected and over-declared on your own return, you correct the return. The first step in either case is evidencing the error at transaction level — the order, the destination, the rate applied and the rate that should have applied — because a claim saying only that the total looks too high goes nowhere. Time limits apply and differ by country.
Is it too late to correct returns I filed wrongly?
Usually not, and a voluntary correction generally sits better than waiting. Most systems distinguish between an error the taxpayer comes forward with and one the authority finds, and the difference shows up in how the penalty position is treated. The practical constraints are time limits, which differ between countries and between taxes, and evidence, which you hold today and may not in a few years. The sequence that works is to quantify the error first, establish whether it runs in your favour or theirs, and then choose the correction route on those facts.
Do I get relief for stock that was returned or destroyed?
There is usually a mechanism for it, and it is one sellers rarely claim in full. Goods returned by customers, written off, disposed of by the fulfilment centre or lost in transit each have a treatment for profit and for indirect tax purposes, and the fulfilment reports record those events separately. The difficulty is almost never entitlement. It is evidence: the relief follows the records, and a seller who has never pulled the removal and disposal reports has nothing to base a claim on. Pull them each period and the position largely takes care of itself.
What is cross-border tax?
Cross-border tax is what applies when income, assets or people touch more than one tax system at once — someone living in one country and earning in another, a company selling or hiring abroad, a family holding property in a second country. The work is rarely one country's rules applied harder; it is reconciling two sets of rules and claiming the relief that stops the same income being taxed twice at full rates. See what we do.
What is a double tax treaty and what does it actually do?
It is an agreement between two countries that divides up the right to tax. Article by article it decides which country taxes employment income, dividends, interest, royalties, pensions, property and business profits — and where both may tax, it caps what the source country can withhold and tells the other to give credit. It also breaks residence ties and opens a government-to-government channel for disputes. What it never does is apply itself: a treaty position is claimed. See our treaty work.
