OSS Registration - OSS Tax Collecting Issue

[bamboli-ltd]

Hi All,

Hope you are doing well.

My company registered in Bulgaria, and we ship items from our Turkey warehouse however ebay asked us to register OSS as we reached the threshold. We've registered OSS with our Bulgarian Vat ID on second quarter of 2024 and on July our accountant told us that we have to pay VAT again.

Ebay collects VAT from EU buyers when they are checking out. If so why i need to pay VAT again for the same transaction ?

My question is anyone here like our situation ? If yes, how did you handle this case ?

Thanks in advance.

[lacemaker3]

@bamboli-ltd 

This community forum is based on eBay USA, so most of the users here are based in the USA, and the others are mostly export sellers who sell to the USA. So we don't have a lot of experience with VAT, collectively.

However, here is a link to the eBay help page about VAT requirements for sellers in the EU. As I understand this, if you are registered for OSS (One Stop Shop), then you are supposed to be collecting and remitting VAT for your sales to EU residents (who are not VAT-registered).

I don't know exactly how you do that, but I believe that you set up your listings so that eBay remits the VAT collected from buyers to the sellers so they can remit it with their VAT payments. If you have questions about this, you should look through the links on this page, and/or ask about this on an eBay community forum in the EU, where they are more experienced with this.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/selling/vat-obligations-eu?id=4650

[reallynicestamps]

You may find first hand advice on  the eBay Ireland site, which is in English. Ireland is in the EU.

The German site, also EU, is much larger, if you understand German.

[bamboli-ltd]

Thank you guys. There is actually no 100 per cent knowladge about this situation but i am too close to solve.