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So, my company provides IT services—we're VAT registered and deal quite a bit with international clients. We end up ordering a lot of stuff from Amazon, mostly books, tech gear, and occasionally software licenses.
Lately, we've been getting invoices from Amazon that list a Luxembourg address, but they’re using our local US tax ID (I'm assuming they hit some threshold here and had to register for tax purposes). Here's the catch: none of these invoices showing a US tax ID actually include any sales tax—it's just the cost of the goods.
From where I'm sitting, these invoices don't seem technically correct since there's no tax listed, but let's be real—there's no way I'm getting ahold of anyone at Amazon to explain how US tax laws work just to get them to fix their billing.
How should I handle this moving forward? Is it okay to just not claim any input tax (since there isn't any anyway), leave the tax at zero, and just write the whole thing off as a business expense?😵
Lately, we've been getting invoices from Amazon that list a Luxembourg address, but they’re using our local US tax ID (I'm assuming they hit some threshold here and had to register for tax purposes). Here's the catch: none of these invoices showing a US tax ID actually include any sales tax—it's just the cost of the goods.
From where I'm sitting, these invoices don't seem technically correct since there's no tax listed, but let's be real—there's no way I'm getting ahold of anyone at Amazon to explain how US tax laws work just to get them to fix their billing.
How should I handle this moving forward? Is it okay to just not claim any input tax (since there isn't any anyway), leave the tax at zero, and just write the whole thing off as a business expense?😵