Amazon receipts and Vat

[tullah]

Its been so simple to just click on the laptop and order from Amazon. Now my accountant is asking for all the vat receipts. It's a nightmare and puts me off ordering anything else from them. How do others sort out Amazon for accounting purposes?

 

[milkloss]

You can go back through your orders and request a vat invoice from sellers. Some will have an invoice button you can click on others you'll have to send a message requesting one. Most respond quite quickly even though it might be only for a couple of quid.

 

[CollCrofter]

Please excuse the rubbish photo this is exactly where you need to go

 

[Badshot]

Very often there's no vat number though so not a legal vat invoice.
I'm buggered if I know where we stand with some of the sellers, an awful lot are direct to China.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

I had an email the other day asking if I wanted a business amazon account? Maybe that would show vat ect better and be easier for accounting?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Please excuse the rubbish photo this is exactly where you need to go View attachment 508136

Is that on a computer? You always seem to get a different display whether you are using a smart phone or laptop. Trouble is a smart phone is so much easier to order stuff on. Some would say too easy!

 

[slackjawedyokel]

I recently ordered 6 sets of draining rods from Amazon.
They arrived packed individually into six gigantic boxes, each of which would have easily contained all 6 sets .
I did find the VAT invoices quite easily in the Your Account / Your Orders section as per @CollCrofter s photo above, but theyd put them all through as individual orders rather than one; each invoice was two pages long and I also printed an Order Summary to make things clearer for my accountant. More than a dozen pages when one would have sufficed

 

[Exfarmer]

If you do not receive a VAT invoice on imported goods, then there is no VAT, but you must declare this and I believe HMRC will then charge you the VAT even if you can then reclaim it.
There is currently a huge enquiry going on about imports from China aa it appears there are some massive frauds going on with goods being underdeclared in value.

 

[sleepy]

Very often there's no vat number though so not a legal vat invoice.
I'm buggered if I know where we stand with some of the sellers, an awful lot are direct to China.

If there's not a vat number the seller probably isn't vat registered, don't claim it back whatever you do.
A lot of the sellers aren't vat registered.

 

[Badshot]

If there's not a vat number the seller probably isn't vat registered, don't claim it back whatever you do.
A lot of the sellers aren't vat registered.

I know, it's the amount that seem to.come direct from China that's worrying.

 

[Will Blackburn]

Have a look for a vat number on the sellers website.

 

[Campbell]

There usually a VAT number on the delivery note/invoice in the box with the goods.

 

[sleepy]

I know, it's the amount that seem to.come direct from China that's worrying.

Most aren't vat registered as they have no uk base, so they need to go through the reverse charge procedure (in other words, no vat to claim back).

 

[foxbox]

I had an email the other day asking if I wanted a business amazon account? Maybe that would show vat ect better and be easier for accounting?

It's very similar to the ordinary account but if you buy from a 3rd party via Amazon you still need to contact them directly for a VAT invoice. Prices are displayed ex VAT and the business account seems to be aimed mainly at larger organisations. For example there are lots of options to control order processes (permissions, verifications etc) for multiple employees which are unlikely to be relevant to most farms.

 

[CollCrofter]

Is that on a computer? You always seem to get a different display whether you are using a smart phone or laptop. Trouble is a smart phone is so much easier to order stuff on. Some would say too easy!

Yeah you have to do it from a computer. I was doing from an iPad and realised it was totally different and if I recall correctly the option for a VAT request wasn't to be found on the iPad App

 

[tullah]

Thanks everyone. Finally got them all printed out.