Any harm in letting Amazon do your VAT invoices?

[chris100]

Amazon keeps requesting i upload invoices for all business registered customers on my stealth accounts.

Should i allow them to automatically provide invoices or will they request further information (or further scrutiny) that could compromise my stealth accounts?

I'm not registered for vat at the moment...but maybe one day?

I have clients that do the auto invoices without issues

[Lemon263]

Unless you are VAT registered then you have no choice but to do your own, Amazon only enroll registered sellers in their auto invoice service.

[chris100]

So they send these emails out to everyone?

"According to our records, you have received 2 order(s) from Amazon Business customers in July for which you have not yet uploaded an invoice.* The Amazon Business invoicing policy requires you to provide a compliant VAT invoice (or a receipt, if you are not legally obliged to issue a VAT invoice) within one business day after shipment confirmation for orders placed by Amazon Business customers.

Please upload the missing invoice(s) through Seller Central. To do so, go to Manage Orders, locate the order(s) for which you need to provide an invoice (marked with the Business customer label), click Upload Invoice and follow the instructions. Once the document has been processed, customers will be able to download it from Your Orders page in their account.

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If you do not want to upload invoices manually, Amazon's free VAT Calculation Service can automatically generate VAT invoices on your behalf and make them available for download to customers. To enable the service, enter basic tax information in Seller Central and confirm by clicking on Agree and Activate. If you use a compatible third-party solution, your invoices can also be uploaded on Amazon automatically."

Do these have to be PDF files?