Hey Fellow Tax Payer
When OSS was introduced in 2021 we were told it will make our lifes easier.
Well... It does save us registering for VAT in EU countries when exceeding the threshold of sales.
BUT, this only applies when your company is already crushing it and makes lots of sales. In other words: when you can actually afford it.
For most companies the OSS VAT filing just adds another headache of no-value-add-task.
We have started selling on Amazon in 2014 and witnessed how the life of an Amazon seller turned more and more into a crazy juggle of anything from sourcing to selling, PPC. Not to mention Compliance and Tax.
Amazon PAN EU was introduced and opened the European market for us Amazon sellers, with it came huge tax complexity. Complex, that we were not able to file our taxes by ourselves any more.
3rd party services showed up offering their services charging amazing fees.
When OSS was started we used one of the services offering the quarterly OSS report. There was just one catch:
It seemed totally overpriced, totaling 4 digit per year.
This got me started to fiddle together my own OSS calculation using Excel. Bumpy, but I got it to work. Some OSS filings later I sat down with Dave and we started to develop OSSbuddy, the tool that I needed for myself to make my life easier and OSS filing affordable.
So, now here it is. Simple and affordable. OSSbuddy might not be as beautiful looking as other tools. It processes Amazon transactions and delivers the report needed for OSS compliance.
