Updates on California Marketplace Tax Collection and Seller Central reporting
Beginning April 15, 2022, Marketplace Tax Collection (MTC) rules will include regulatory fees subject to MTC (for example, the Electronic Waste Recycling fee) that are supported by our calculation system. The California Electronic Waste Recycling fee will be calculated, collected, and remitted by Amazon (as the marketplace facilitator) on third-party seller offers. Other fees will follow as those MTC rules are finalized and the fees are supported by our service.
You do not need to take any action in your seller account for supported regulatory fees to be collected from a customer. Amazon will determine if a supported regulatory fee applies to your product using relevant product information (for example, product type, screen size, and battery information) that you supplied when listing your product.
If a regulatory fee amount is collected from the buyer, that amount will be reflected as a “regulatory fee” line item on the order and transaction detail pages. Your payments and sales tax reporting will have new “regulatory fee” columns that will also reflect the total regulatory fee amount.
In addition, the sales tax report format will also be updated to provide better filtering by cascading the order information from the primary line to the secondary (jurisdiction) lines that were previously left blank, with the exception of any “total” amounts that will remain on the primary line.
Sellers who use an API to obtain their reports, make note of the column and header updates. See Payments Summary, Date Range, and Tax Document Library for more information.
You may consider working with your tax advisor or the taxing jurisdiction directly to determine if your business has any new or ongoing reporting obligations.
For additional information, see the US Marketplace Tax Collection FAQ and Marketplace Tax Collection for Canada FAQ.
Updates on California Marketplace Tax Collection and Seller Central reporting
Beginning April 15, 2022, Marketplace Tax Collection (MTC) rules will include regulatory fees subject to MTC (for example, the Electronic Waste Recycling fee) that are supported by our calculation system. The California Electronic Waste Recycling fee will be calculated, collected, and remitted by Amazon (as the marketplace facilitator) on third-party seller offers. Other fees will follow as those MTC rules are finalized and the fees are supported by our service.
You do not need to take any action in your seller account for supported regulatory fees to be collected from a customer. Amazon will determine if a supported regulatory fee applies to your product using relevant product information (for example, product type, screen size, and battery information) that you supplied when listing your product.
If a regulatory fee amount is collected from the buyer, that amount will be reflected as a “regulatory fee” line item on the order and transaction detail pages. Your payments and sales tax reporting will have new “regulatory fee” columns that will also reflect the total regulatory fee amount.
In addition, the sales tax report format will also be updated to provide better filtering by cascading the order information from the primary line to the secondary (jurisdiction) lines that were previously left blank, with the exception of any “total” amounts that will remain on the primary line.
Sellers who use an API to obtain their reports, make note of the column and header updates. See Payments Summary, Date Range, and Tax Document Library for more information.
You may consider working with your tax advisor or the taxing jurisdiction directly to determine if your business has any new or ongoing reporting obligations.
For additional information, see the US Marketplace Tax Collection FAQ and Marketplace Tax Collection for Canada FAQ.
28 respostas
Seller_Pzsli90DareuA
like the reporting improvement. we are california based, and are required to file a return not withstanding collection by amazon.
Seller_WAUh3i4dkQNfE
This does make it convenient by having Amazon facilitate and collect
additional fees for California customers without any required effort from sellers.
If a customer has to be charged more based on their location…
might as well make it easy on the seller. 
Even more regulatory fees coming after the ones already announced before this one.
Perhaps those sellers who have expressed an interest in blocking sales to
California will eventually get their wish as Californians continue to be subject
to ever increasing “fees” for just about everything and spend less on sites that
are charging and collecting them.
Seller_nstkdGWZl0SW0
This is a reminder of why it is time to allow sellers to block sales to both customers and locations.
Seller_TyNPnzv9SaYa3
So are we going to be charged a commission on the regulatory fees?
Seller_LwUhSN3kUAXlg
Rather than “for example”, can Amazon please exhaustively list the fees it collects, at least on the FAQ? I’m particularly interested in Hazmat fees for items Amazon has incorrectly labeled hazmat and then made it so difficult to fix that it’s not worth the man-hours involved.
Seller_LwUhSN3kUAXlg
So, all these sellers that are complaining about selling in CA due to excessive regulatory fees: I conclude that you are selling for less on other sites by ducking your regulatory requirements there? And then publicly stating that in a world-viewable forum? You might want to consider redacting those posts.
Also, you want to sell in the US, but not in the largest state, which makes up over 10% of the population, and a larger chunk of the disposable income? And the reason you want to do that is because you don’t want to pay required fees, when Amazon is offering to do the withholding and filings for you? Care to explain why, in a manner I can understand?
Seller_T5Mv3ZCUSh7Zl
Does this include mill assessment on Pesticides (California Food and Agricultural Code (FAC) section 12841)? If so, will we “Sellers of Record” still be required to file quarterly reports? Will there be tools/reports available to help reconcile Amazon remittances, and Seller Sales. Will the associated record keeping be maintained by Amazon, Sellers, or both?
Currently, “retail” sales of non-agricultural products labeled only for home, industrial, or institutional use, are exempted from the invoicing requirement. Will pesticides have an additional Compliance field to indicate if the pesticide is CA mill assessment exempt?
@SEAmod, this announcement is a little broad, but short on details. Thanks for any additional insights, or information you could provide.
Seller_ZDGgATBGegBqy
We hope that this product categorization will not be implemented by the same employees that did pesticides.
Seller_mhgPmhwLhlvcV
That’s wonderful news to California buyers and sellers.
