[Jason Wilder]

We sell to Amazon using both Amazon methods (Amazon FBA – Fullfilled by Amazon (they ship) and Amazon FBM – Fulfilled by Merchant (we ship) ).  In the past Amazon has collected sales tax for these scenarios and passed it on to us.  We would import the Sales Orders, calculate tax (using Avalara Add-on) and remit the tax to the appropriate state.

The tax law has changed for orders shipped to Pennsylvania and Washington State.  Amazon is now liable to remit the taxes to those states not us.  Does anyone else sell on Amazon and have the Avalara add-on?  How have you solved this issue so Avalara is not calculating taxes on NAV sales orders for those states?

We are in the process of working with Avalara on this issue but I was curious if anyone else has bumped into this yet?

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Jason Wilder
Senior Application Developer
Stonewall Kitchen
York ME
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[Sachin Chavan]

Hello Jason Wilder,

Are you still working on this ? Let me know anything required from Avalara (NAV).

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Sachin Chavan
Senior Software Engineer
Avalara
Seattle WA
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[Brian Peithman]

OP mentioned this applies to WA and PA who have passed these laws specific to Amazon Seller Central (aka FBA). Starting 7/1/18, Oklahoma joined in and also requires Amazon to collect and remit the sales tax. Dealing with the situation myself without the Avalara connection.

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Brian Peithman
BADEN SPORTS
RENTON WA
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[Anthony Darden]

We use Avalara and recently starting selling on Amazon.  I posed this to our finance person responsible for sales tax and he responded with the following:

“According to Cert Capture, we have 10 Amazon customer numbers, 1 fulfillment account and the rest are different for direct ship customer purchases. For customers that have ship-to locations in Washington & Pennsylvania, any order going there will be exempt on our end so Amazon would be responsible to remit the tax on those sales.  We are not collecting sales tax on orders shipped to these states.  We access the Amazon customer portal and pull down the certificates Amazon puts up there for everyone. In short, Amazon should be collecting tax on these and remitting it themselves.”

Hope this helps.

Tony 

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Anthony Darden
Director of IT
Protective Industries, Inc.
Buffalo NY
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