The Spring Festival is approaching, and the year-long hard cross-border road has finally entered the final stage. However, although sellers have returned to their hometowns for the New Year, Amazon is still "not closing", following the launch of a number of new front-end policies, and began to settle accounts and clean up local accounts after the autumn. Affected by this,Recently, the European station has set off a mighty wave of tax payments.
At the beginning of the new year, another round of tax audit turmoil on Amazon Europe came uninvited.
Tax audit has always been a key issue in Europe, and Amazon's attitude towards this has always adhered to the rigid attitude of "although far away, it will be punished". amz123 learned,Since Q4 2023, there have been three rounds of tax inspections in Europe, namely September on the eve of the peak season, November on the way to the peak season, and January after the end of the peak season.
It is reported thatSince January 16, a large number of accounts in Europe have been audited and their funds frozen. According to the seller's feedback, this round of cleaning is mainly for old accounts before January 2021, if the seller fails to provide written evidence within the specified time, the platform will determine that the seller does not have actual operations in Europe, and will start to collect and pay VAT on the seller's B2C sales.
Specifically, the accounts subject to tax review mainly involve the following issues:First, the sales are high but not declared or low; Second, the local company in the background of the store has been cancelled; Third, due to the impact of the DAC7 bill, the tax bureau began to audit and audit the stores that have submitted information.
In view of the menacing tide of this round of tax audits, a large number of sellers in Europe have been affected, and even many sellers have suffered heavy losses
"My customer has also been blocked in mainland France, millions of euros, and now the ban is being lifted. ”
"A freight forwarder said that his customer died 63 sets of numbers and lost 200 million. ”
"At least 10,000 accounts have been blocked, and the amount involved is very large. ”
Due to the fact that this tax investigation is at the end of the year, many cross-border companies suddenly received a notice from Amazon to pay taxes, and because some companies involved a huge amount of money, it even affected the year-end benefits of employees.
An employee of a cross-border company broke the news that his company's UK station store had not paid taxes in 2020Recently, he was investigated and punished and paid more than 50,000 pounds in taxes and fines (about nearly 500,000 yuan).
To this end, the boss of the company deducted 60,000+ from the employee's year-end bonus this year on the grounds that the 20-year commission was distributed with the profits of the British station to make up for the tax loophole.
Not only that, but recently a number of big sellers have received relevant tax notices. For example, in the second round of tax audits in November last year, No. 9 Company issued an announcement statingIts subsidiary, SDEBV, was required by the Dutch Customs and Excise Ministry to pay customs duties on industrial products under 54910,000 euros, final anti-dumping duty 568280,000 euros, final countervailing duty 157390,000 euros.
Of course, tax risks are not limited to the European market. Recently, Shenzhen Damai Xinghui shares received a tax payment notice from the U.S. tax department.
According to the announcement, the subject involved is STK, a subsidiary of Zebao Technology established in the United States, and the tax year of the payment notice is from 2016 to 2021, and the tax-related reasons involve the merger and acquisition delivery date and the performance VAM period. According to the relevant U.S. tax authorities, STK has failed to pay sales tax in fullAs a result, a total of 237 taxes and fines were imposed$840,000.
Based on the above cases, tax issues have always been a key minefield for cross-border sales. And as the platform tends to develop in compliance, Amazon's review of the local store data of Chinese entities is becoming more and more stringent. Therefore, for sellers, it is also necessary to abide by the basic guidelines and eliminate tax loopholes.
During the Chinese New Year, the year-end bonus is undoubtedly the focus of the cross-border work circle. However, the increase in the unstable environment of the industry in the past year has also led to many constraints on sellers' year-end bonuses, such as the above-mentioned companies using year-end bonuses to pay taxes, and the cancellation of annual bonuses due to unsatisfactory performance, which can be said to make many cross-border people feel like they are in the throat.
An Amazon operator who works in a 100-million-level big selling company revealed that this year's year-end bonus was unfortunately canceled because the profit did not meet the expected target of 30% growth.
Nowadays, it seems that millions of year-end bonuses issued by cross-border companies have become a thing of the past, and instead a large number of sellers have missed the year-end bonus due to poor performance, and even the commission has disappeared to get a year's salary.
"We deduct 20,000 yuan, the remaining 6 points, the commission will be deducted another 5 points, and the year-end bonus will be a hair. ”
"I cleared the goods for most of the year, and I didn't lose too much, but I always lost money, and I didn't see the year-end bonus. ”
"There is no year-end bonus, no annual meeting, and all kinds of shifts are transferred to the Chinese New Year's Eve for holidays, and crookedly make up the holidays," he said
"There is no New Year's notice, there are no benefits, I heard the old employees say that there is no red envelope at the beginning of the year, and the New Year is according to the country, and he has to report his performance every day, and there is no reward and subsidy. ”
The year-end bonus I gave myself was to reward myself for leaving my job after the year. Some sellers let out such a helpless sigh.
As we all know, the salary and welfare system of cross-border e-commerce has always been performance-based, and the more eye-catching the performance, the more generous the salary and benefits, and vice versa.
2023 is a turbulent and extraordinary year for the cross-border industry, and the complex and changeable external environment has posed more stringent challenges to cross-border practitioners. As a result, many small and medium-sized cross-border companies have failed to fully resist various risks due to the lack of solid barriers, and their performance has fallen into a decline or even a dilemma of making ends meet.
In the face of performance losses or substandard, reducing costs and increasing efficiency has become a common choice for many cross-border companies, which has created a situation where bonuses are far away at the end of the year.