Do I need to report the movements of stock between Amazon warehouses?

Yes. If you are enrolled in Amazon’s Pan-European FBA program or any other Fulfilment by Amazon (FBA) initiative, you are required to report stock movements between Amazon warehouses located in different EU countries.

When you send inventory to Amazon, they may redistribute it across their European warehouses based on demand. This logistical strategy allows for faster delivery times (such as next-day delivery under Amazon Prime), but it also triggers intra-community transactions that must be reported for VAT compliance purposes.

These movements appear in your Amazon VAT Transactions Report and are typically labeled as FC_TRANSFER or INBOUNDS.

For example, if goods are moved from France to Germany:

• France must report an intra-community supply.
• Germany must report an intra-community acquisition.

To ensure your accounting records match your VAT returns, we recommend issuing internal transfer documents between your French and German VAT numbers. This internal documentation supports transparency and simplifies reconciliation with your tax filings.

How Does VATify Handle This Automatically?

Our software is specifically designed for Amazon sellers and automatically calculates these stock movements using key fields from the Amazon VAT Transactions Report. Here's a breakdown of the logic we apply:

Field	Description
TRANSACTION_TYPE	Movements are classified as FC_TRANSFER or INBOUND
QTY	Quantity of units moved
ASIN	Identifier of the product being moved
DEPARTURE_COUNTRY	Country from which the goods are shipped (declared as an intra-community supply)
ARRIVAL_COUNTRY	Country to which the goods are delivered (declared as an intra-community acquisition)
COST_PRICE_OF_ITEMS	This field is always empty in the Amazon report, as Amazon does not have access to your cost data. It is your responsibility to report the correct cost of goods.

We use this structure to ensure accurate recognition and classification of intra-community stock transfers. However, you must assign a cost price to each ASIN yourself, as Amazon does not provide this value.