I just received a notice of interview from the IRS that there is a difference of 2 million dollars between the declared income of my Amazon store and the data reported by the platform ......

Freight forwarders suddenly said that you can not buy a single export, now a bunch of orders in the hands of the customs record is not compliant, will be recognized as domestic sales of back taxes?

After October 2025, the cross-border circle was completely cornered by fiscal compliance - SAT 15 landed, Amazon, Temu and all other platforms are mandatory to report sellers' sales data to the tax bureau, and once the Golden Tax IV big data is compared, zero declaration and low declaration sellers are instantly exposed.

On April 3, 2026, Amazon officially released a notice: affected by the industry's escalating costs, the North American station FBA delivery fee added 3.5% fuel and logistics temporary surcharge, and the European station added 1.5%, which came into effect on April 17th.

It's not next quarter, it's not next month. It's nine days from now, straight out of your profits.

The first reaction of many sellers when they see the notice is: it's only 3.5%, not a big problem.

But if you're shipping 30,000 units or more a month, that 3.5% is close to $70,000 a year. If you haven't done any tax planning yet, you could be saving more than 10 times that amount. Today's post helps you get three things straight: how much this increase is, how it affects your profits, and what you should be doing most right now

Hangzhou, a cross-border e-commerce "big seller" - its 7 Amazon stores, 3 independent station, last year, the flow of water dry to 300 million. But recently he has been losing sleep every day: "Yesterday, I heard from my peers that the next district has an annual sales of 200 million sellers were tax interviews, back taxes plus late fees lost more than 8 million ......"

This is not a paragraph, is the current countless hundreds of millions of cross-border sellers of the real situation: the more stores do more and more, the more the data is more chaotic, the more money earned, the more panic in the heart.

If you are also a cross-border e-commerce multi-store seller with an annual water flow of more than 100 million dollars, this article today must be read patiently, how to achieve tax compliance?

In the track of business operation, finance and taxation is the foundation and the “lifeline” that cannot tolerate any sloppiness. Many bosses in the start-up period or development, will give preference to the lower price of the agency, think “can bookkeeping and tax filing on the line”, but really wait until the tax warning, compliance risk outbreaks, only to find that the initial save that cost, and ultimately have to pay ten times, a hundred times the cost.
Today, we will break up the story with you: the core gap between the accounting company and the professional tax compliance services is not in the numbers on the quotation, but in the risk prevention and control capabilities, strategic service dimensions and enterprise value empowerment. If your business is in a critical period of growth, this content must be read to understand how to choose the right tax partner, to avoid the invisible pit.

Do cross-border e-commerce know that returns are the biggest ”invisible killer”. Sold goods, profits have been in the pocket. As a result, the customer a ”don't want it”, the goods returned - you think it's just a matter of refund? Not so simple. Return logistics costs may be two or even three times the cost of the original shipment, and very often returned goods can not be sold twice, can only be thrown away. A SKU with a high return rate can eat up the entire store's profit.

Especially do 9610 mode (B2C direct mail parcel) sellers, return is a nightmare: goods from which port out of the port, must be returned to which port. You ship in Shenzhen, customers in the U.S. returns, the goods have to fly back to Shenzhen Customs, and then customs clearance, and then pick up the goods. When this batch of goods back to your hands, the yellow flowers are cold.

But now, this ”dead rules” finally changed - April 1, 2026 onwards, 9610 mode officially realize the national cross-customs return. Simply put: the return must no longer return to the original export port, you can choose the nearest port to return. This seems to be a ”small adjustment”, but the cost structure of cross-border e-commerce sellers have a huge impact.

Today an article to give you a thorough: 9610 cross-border return in the end how to operate? How much money can be saved? How to turn the return from a ”loss” into a ”re-circulating asset”?