The Amazon e-commerce platform in the United States has attracted many sellers from all over the world to settle in the mall, and the daily transaction volume on Amazon is also a considerable figure. So do these merchants settled in Amazon need to pay taxes?
The answer is yes. Like our domestic companies, all sellers in the Amazon mall have to pay taxes. The platform will calculate, collect and pay sales tax on each order of the transaction from the seller’s settlement according to the tax requirements of different states. For different products, the platform will also determine whether to collect taxes based on the price and classification of the product. The tax information for each order can be viewed in the order details or transaction records in the background. If there are multiple orders, you can view it in the order or sales report within a certain period of time.
Date range report: The sales tax collected can be checked in the list.
Order report and sales tax report: If the platform calculates, collects and pays sales tax for each order of the seller, the collection mode list will be displayed as a mall service provider.
Sellers cannot exit the automatic collection during the normal sales process, and cannot refuse to sell goods to certain customers due to collection issues. For areas where the platform automatically calculates the collection, sellers cannot update their settings. In addition, for some areas where the platform does not participate in the collection settings, the system will use the tax calculation settings set by the seller. If the platform automatically calculates the tax for the seller, when the order is refunded, the customer service staff on the platform will handle it. The seller does not need to do anything else. The platform will help the merchant solve it.
Currently, the United States has begun to tighten taxation on cross-border e-commerce. In the past, there may have been cases where taxes were not levied, but each platform is constantly improving its own system. In addition, the platform’s policies are becoming more and more standardized, mainly used to regulate sellers. Therefore, when doing cross-border e-commerce, everyone must remember to understand the tax regulations of each state as early as possible, and also use various tools flexibly, so as to reduce unnecessary trouble and workload.