Autumn statement tackles VAT Fraud via Fulfilment Houses
The government has just announced in the Autumn statement the Implementation of the Fulfilment House Due Diligence Scheme in 2018 to tackle VAT fraud by overseas businesses selling goods via online marketplaces. Lets hope Amazon Fulfilment will be held liable of all...
Amazon UK bans incentivised reviews
Amazon have just updated their Review policy on Amazon UK & EU. No more free giveaways in exchange for a review. Chinese Seller using this technique to boost their product ranking and sales. Seem's like Amazon are taking review manipulation seriously. Shame...
£7,500,000,000 in lost revenue for UK companies, due to the online VAT Fraud that HMRC are failing to stop
The Rt Hon David Gauke MP announced that online VAT fraud accounts for up to £1.5billion of the total VAT gap. However it's costing a lot more than that; £1.5billion of evaded VAT equates to £7.5billion in lost sales revenue for UK companies. These UK companies are...
Amazon’s Second Letter Warning Chinese Sellers to become VAT Compliant
Further to our report yesterday. It seems Amazon have sent out a second letter warning Chinese sellers to register for VAT. This news article on was published on the 1st November 2016 on Chinese website www.ebrun.com. We've used Google to tranlate it: Amazon second...
eBay Announcement on VAT compliance for overseas sellers is being picked up by Chinese News.
Some interesting news coming out of Chinese News Networks. Seems the latest eBay News Announcement on VAT compliance for overseas sellers is being picked up in China now. Chinese News website www.ebrun.com has just (November 15th 2016) published this eBay sellers...
Latest Headlines on Amazon Seller Central – UK VAT Regulations
Today Amazon published new headlines in Amazon Seller Central about the VAT Regulations for Online Marketplaces. It seems the net is closing on VAT Evaders. We are hoping this is a sign that HMRC are now taking action against the sellers and issuing take down notices...
Budget March 2016 – Our Response
Having campaigned about on-line VAT Fraud for the past 2 years, it’s welcome news that our campaign is finally on the political agenda and steps are being made to solve the issues. George Osborne announced a series of measures to combat online VAT Fraud in the March...
YOTOOL LTD, LL TRADER LTD & WUIHANGWAN TRADE CO – Still Trading
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014. They have now closed down all their accounts and re opened under a new identity WUIHANGWAN TRADE CO., LIMITED, evading all their unpaid VAT and having no stock seized by HMRC - great work. Where is the justice in...
ddddadi – still trading
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014. They are still trading. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £1000,000 in unpaid VAT so far. That’s 4.5% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 years Case Study eBayer...
besdata_top1 – still trading
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014. They are still trading. With Just one of the eBay accounts HMRC has gifted this seller at least £1500,000 in unpaid VAT so far. That’s 6.6% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over...
HMRC Incompetence
HMRC has shown a woeful lack of understanding of the scale and risk of VAT fraud now being committed by Chinese and Non EU NETPs on eBay and Amazon. In July 2014 we handed our detailed report to HMRC VAT Fraud Team and Lin Homer, the CEO of HMRC. We were extremely...
TOMTOP – removed 2017
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014 . HMRC finally took action against them in the summer of 2017. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £4,000,000 in unpaid VAT That’s 17% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the...
Market Research – Replacement Touch Screens on eBay
Replacement touch screens for smartphones and tablets are big business. Almost everyone who has owned a smartphone has, at some point, broken its screen. The technical word for a touch screen is "digitizer" 400+ sellers sold over 130,000 digitizers with combined sales...
my-elink – removed in 2016
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014. Their accounts were removed in 2016. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £2,000,000 in unpaid VAT. That’s 9% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 years Case Study...
caseway – removed 2016
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014. Their account was removed in 2016. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £300,000 in unpaid VAT. That’s 1.3% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 year Case Study...
electronic-king-inc – removed 2017
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014 . They finally stopped trading in the UK in 2017 HMRC has gifted this seller at least £5,000,000 in unpaid VAT. That’s 22% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 years....
aclubuk – removed in 2016
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014. Their accounts where removed in 2016. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £300,000 in unpaid VAT. That’s 1.3% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 year. Case Study...
wedo-bestdeal – removed 2017
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014 . HMRC finally took action against them in 2017. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £1,184,406 in unpaid VAT. That’s 5% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 years....
photodirect – removed 2016
We reported this seller to HMRC VAT Fraud team in 2014 . They finally stopped trading in late 2016. HMRC has gifted this seller at least £6,680,000 in unpaid VAT That’s 29.7% of the total £22.5m budget HMRC have allocated to tackle this fraud over the next 5 years....
NETPS & The Law
From 1 December 2012, all Non-established taxable persons (NETPs) (HMRC VATREG37000), supplying goods located in the UK are required to register for UK VAT when they make their first supply of goods or services here, regardless of the value. There is no VAT threshold...
Market Research – Fakes & Counterfeits on eBay
It's not exactly ground breaking news that Chinese Seller are using eBay.co.uk & Amazon.co.uk to flood the UK with fake and counterfeits goods. Lunatik TIKTAK iPhone case For the purpose of this case-study we have chosen just one product; the most expensive iPhone...
Market Research – iPad Cases on eBay
The Daily Mirror ran several stories about Chinese eBay sellers taking over the UK iPad Case market. Here are the articles from the Daily Mirror: VAT evading Chinese firms are wiping out British business These Chinese sellers on eBay should be paying VAT - so why are...
Market Research – iPads & Tablets on eBay
The iPads/Tablets & eBook Readers category of eBay is one of the hottest selling categories on eBay. £6,424,066 or 29,491 iPads were sold on eBay.co.uk in December 2014. £3,283,941 or 58,461 Android Tablets were sold on eBay.co.uk in December 2014. iPads &...
Market Research – Cameras on eBay
eBay Camera category clearly illustrates how VAT Evading NETPs have taken over eBay.co.uk. Camera Market Share Top 10 sellers of cameras on eBay.co.uk : User Montly Camera Sales Total Annual Sales of All Products Country UK Stock VAT Number #1 britishdeals £521,472...