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Let me just cut and paste from HMRC's advice page: If you supply digital services to consumers through an online portal, gateway or marketplace then it’s impor

Let me just cut and paste from HMRC's advice page: If you supply digital services to consumers through an online portal, gateway or marketplace then it’s important to determine whether you’re making the supply to the customer or to the platform operator. Where the platform operator sets the general terms and conditions, authorises payment or delivery, or doesn’t clearly state the name of the supplier on the receipt or invoice issued to the consumer, then they’ll be seen as making the B2C supply even if they’re contractually only an agent. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-digital-services-and-the-vat-mini-one-stop-shop/vat-supplying-digital-services-and-the-vat-mini-one-stop-shop https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/vat-supplying-dig... So if you sell your digital products through Amazon or another online marketplace you can just calm the heck down and get on with business as usual.

pjc50 12y ago
Indeed; if you're happy to pay a large chunk of your sales to an intermediary you can have them handle the compliance. If you want to disintermediate your sales then you have a lot of hassle.
- kybernetyk 12y ago
  Well, it's a simple business decision. For me the "large chunk" (which isn't that large at all) was far less than what it would cost me doing it myself at a conservative hourly rate.
pbhjpbhj 12y ago
>if you sell your digital products through Amazon or another online marketplace // Can you explain this further? Amazon marketplace put the suppliers name on the page you purchase from, the seller is in control of whether items are sold, the seller is in control of the vital element _the price_. Amazon have T&C but they're not really the terms of sale per se, they're the terms for controlling the marketplace (the seller sets terms for example about non-redistribution or other copyright considerations). The seller appears to be responsible for 2 out of 3 of the main elements of the sale ignoring the point on T&Cs. If Amazon hold the goods, or purchase them up front then I think they'd be liable but if the seller holds them I can't see how the arguments work. Yes Amazon could enable the handling as part of their marketplace but I don't see them as liable for any non-compliance.

pjc50 12y ago

Indeed; if you're happy to pay a large chunk of your sales to an intermediary you can have them handle the compliance. If you want to disintermediate your sales then you have a lot of hassle.

kybernetyk 12y ago
Well, it's a simple business decision. For me the "large chunk" (which isn't that large at all) was far less than what it would cost me doing it myself at a conservative hourly rate.

pbhjpbhj 12y ago

>if you sell your digital products through Amazon or another online marketplace // Can you explain this further? Amazon marketplace put the suppliers name on the page you purchase from, the seller is in control of whether items are sold, the seller is in control of the vital element _the price_. Amazon have T&C but they're not really the terms of sale per se, they're the terms for controlling the marketplace (the seller sets terms for example about non-redistribution or other copyright considerations). The seller appears to be responsible for 2 out of 3 of the main elements of the sale ignoring the point on T&Cs. If Amazon hold the goods, or purchase them up front then I think they'd be liable but if the seller holds them I can't see how the arguments work. Yes Amazon could enable the handling as part of their marketplace but I don't see them as liable for any non-compliance.