Plain-English guides to EU VAT for Amazon sellers.
The traps FBA sellers actually hit — stock quietly stored in a country you enabled for a fee discount without clocking the VAT consequences, warehouse codes like PRG in your reports, OSS that doesn’t cover storage, and letters from the tax office. Written by the founder. No jargon, no scaremongering.
Why storage in a Czech warehouse triggers a Czech VAT registration with no threshold — and what to do once your stock is already there.
Guide · Inventory reports · Warehouse codes PRG warehouse code in your Amazon reports: what it means for VAT→How to spot PRG in your Seller Central inventory reports and what it tells you about where your stock — and your obligations — actually sit.
Guide · Finanční úřad · Don’t panic Got a letter from the Czech tax office? What it means for Amazon sellers→What correspondence from the finanční úřad usually means, why the tax office already knows about your sales, and how to respond calmly.
Guide · Pan-EU · CEE · Programme comparison Pan-EU vs CEE: which VAT registrations each Amazon programme triggers→A side-by-side look at where each programme stores your stock — and which VAT registrations that storage switches on.
Guide · OSS · The storage gap Why OSS doesn’t cover your Amazon warehouse stock→The One-Stop-Shop handles your cross-border B2C sales — it does nothing about the obligations your warehouse stock creates locally.
Guide · Back-filing · The silent gap Registered for Czech VAT but not filing? Fix it before the tax office writes first→What happens when a Czech VAT number exists but the returns don’t — and how back-filing puts it right before anyone asks.
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