Vendor scheme may address Amazon tax troubles in Indian state

Vendor scheme may address Amazon tax troubles in Indian state

With the Seller Flex programme, sellers will have more control over inventory allocated to Amazon India. Visual sourced from Amazon India website.

Amazon India is testing a plan to replicate its warehousing practices around inventory management, quality control, packaging and shipping at the facilities of its third-party sellers. If successful, the programme, called Seller Flex, may help the company build loyalty with sellers and potentially offer the e-commerce giant an option to get around tax issues it is facing in Karnataka, where it has been forced to stop sales of a majority of its products from its warehouse for the past 15 months.

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