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How to download your Amazon VAT Transactions Report

It is the one file we need to prepare your German VAT return. Here is exactly where it lives in Seller Central and how to export it cleanly.

Guide for Amazon sellers filing German VAT · Updated July 2026

Which file you need

✓ Use thisThe Amazon VAT Transactions Report. A transaction-level report produced by Amazon's VAT Calculation Service, one row per sale, with the tax columns we read.
✗ Not theseThe "All Orders" report, Payments or Date-Range reports, or anything under the old "VAT Services on Amazon" (Amazon closed that filing service in October 2024, you do not need it).

Step by step

  1. In Seller Central, open Reports → Fulfilment by Amazon.
  2. In the left menu, scroll to the Tax section and open Amazon VAT Transactions Report.
  3. Select the month you are filing for. One month per file.
  4. Click Request .csv Download. Amazon generates the file. If the download link does not appear, refresh the page.
  5. Upload the file to us exactly as it downloaded. Do not open and re-save it in Excel.

Four things that trip sellers up

  • One month per file. Amazon lets you export up to three months, but German VAT is filed one month at a time, so pick a single month.
  • Do not re-save it in Excel. Opening the file and saving it changes the formatting and we can no longer read the figures. To look at it, use Excel's "From Text/CSV" import and leave the original untouched.
  • Timing. Amazon finalises each month's report on the 4th of the following month (around 10:00 CET). Pulling the current month too early gives you an incomplete file.
  • VAT Calculation Service must be on. The report only carries VAT data when VCS is enabled (Settings → Tax Settings → VAT Calculation Settings). Blank VAT columns mean it is off.

Prerequisite: the VAT Calculation Service

The report is produced by Amazon's VAT Calculation Service (VCS). If you have never activated it, do that first: in Settings → Tax Settings → VAT Calculation Settings you enter your VAT numbers, a default ship-from address, a default Product Tax Code, the invoicing option, and an activation date. VCS is available for sellers in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Sweden, and Ireland.

VCS is not retroactive. It fills the tax columns from its activation date onward, so reports for months before activation will have blank VAT columns.

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Sell through easybill as well? There is a separate guide for the easybill Rechnungsausgangsbuch export.

Free to cite with a link: Vaytax, "How to Download Your Amazon VAT Transactions Report", https://vaytax.com/amazon-vat-report-guide

Frequently asked questions

Is this an estimate or my final VAT?

It is a draft. You see the figures your report produces, then a licensed German Steuerberater reviews them and files the return with the Finanzamt.

The VAT columns in my report are empty. Why?

The report only carries VAT data when Amazon's VAT Calculation Service (VCS) is enabled, under Settings, Tax Settings, VAT Calculation Settings. VCS is not retroactive: it fills the tax columns from its activation date onward, so months before activation stay blank.

I uploaded my report but the VAT shows €0. What went wrong?

Almost always a period mismatch: the invoices in the file are from a different month or year than the filing period you selected. Only transactions dated inside the selected period count. Export the report for the exact month you are filing, one month per file, and upload that.

Which format should I send, CSV or Excel?

CSV is simplest and most reliable. Just send the file exactly as it came from Amazon, without opening and re-saving it.

What about the VAT on my purchases?

This report covers your sales. Input VAT (Vorsteuer) on your German purchases is added separately, by you or by us, so the return is complete.

Is my sales data safe?

The free checker reads your file in your browser; nothing is uploaded there. When you file with Vaytax, you upload the report to us so we can prepare and file your return: it is stored on EU servers (Frankfurt region) and handled by the team of a licensed German Steuerberater, who is bound by professional secrecy.

Your report in, your return filed

Upload the file, see your German VAT worked out and reconciled, and a licensed German Steuerberater reviews and files it with the Finanzamt.

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