Amazon is raising seller fees for thousands of small and medium-sized businesses in France because of a new digital tax passed by the French government.
on the French digital tax Monday. In prepared testimony, Peter Hiltz, Amazon's director of international tax policy and planning, called the 3% levy "harmful" and "discriminatory." He said it will "negatively affect the hundreds of thousands of small and medium-size businesses that use Amazon's services to help reach customers in France," including more than 10,000 sellers based in the country.
Jewelry-maker Lemaire, for example, will now pay Amazon 12.36% of every sale she makes on the marketplace as of October 1, up from 12% previously. In an interview with CNBC, she said any increase in fees squeezes her profits, with margins already tight from other taxes and the cost of materials. This tax is aimed squarely at the marketplace services we provide to businesses, so we had no choice but to pass it down to Selling Partners.Lemaire said selling with Amazon is already a stressful experience where the "customer is king." She prefers, which brings in 70% of her total sales, because she said it only charges 10% in fees. Lemaire is also paying for ads on Facebook to drive traffic to her own website.
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