The Amazon Accountant for Canadian and Non-Resident FBA Sellers
Most accountants have never seen a Seller Central settlement. We have. Jones & Cosman is a CPA firm built around Amazon sellers: bookkeeping, corporate and personal tax, and GST/HST, handled by accountants who sell on Amazon themselves.
Two kinds of Amazon sellers, one specialist team
Canadian Amazon sellers
You sell on Amazon.ca or Amazon.com from Canada, maybe through a corporation, maybe as a sole proprietor. You need books that match your payouts, a tax return that holds up, and someone who already understands FBA fees and inventory.
- Monthly bookkeeping reconciled to your settlements
- Corporate and personal tax filed together
- GST/HST and provincial sales tax handled the right way
Non-resident and US sellers on Amazon.ca
You are based outside Canada and sell into the Canadian marketplace. The piece most US sellers miss is the tax they are quietly paying on Amazon fees, advertising, and freight, and the registration that lets them recover it.
- Non-resident GST/HST registration and filing
- Recovering input tax credits on Amazon fees, ads, and freight
- CBSA record custody for non-resident importers
Everything an Amazon seller needs from an accountant
One firm for the full picture. Pick the piece you need today, or hand us all of it.
E-Commerce Bookkeeping
Monthly books reconciled to every Amazon, Shopify, and Walmart payout, with COGS, PPC, and inventory tracked at the transaction level in QuickBooks Online.
Bookkeeping for sellersCorporate Tax
T2 returns for incorporated sellers, prepared by accountants who know how Amazon income, inventory, and fees actually flow through your financials.
Corporate tax filingPersonal Tax
T1 returns for sole proprietors and owner-managers, including the salary and dividend decisions that come with running a seller business.
Personal tax returnsNon-Resident GST/HST
Registration, filing, and input tax credit recovery for non-resident sellers, so the tax baked into your Amazon fees comes back to you.
GST/HST registrationCBSA Record Custody
The customs record-keeping non-resident importers are required to maintain, held and managed for you so an audit never catches you short.
Customs record custodyExit Planning
Getting your books and structure sale-ready well before you list, so a buyer's due diligence finds clean numbers instead of surprises.
Selling your businessWhy Amazon sellers outgrow a general accountant
A general accountant looks at your Amazon payout and sees one deposit. It is not. Every biweekly settlement bundles sales, refunds, FBA fees, storage fees, advertising, and adjustments that have to be split out before your books mean anything.
Miss that, and the numbers on your tax return do not match reality. We have seen sellers overpay because their income was overstated, and others sail toward an audit because GST/HST was never tracked by province. Amazon accounting is its own discipline, and it is the only one we do.
We sell on Amazon ourselves. When you explain a reimbursement, a long-term storage fee, or a USD payout converted at the wrong rate, you are not starting from scratch. We already speak it.
- Settlements split into sales, fees, refunds, and adjustments
- FBA, storage, and long-term storage fees categorized correctly
- USD and CAD payouts reconciled with real forex
- FBA inventory valued the way the CRA expects
- GST/HST broken out by province, audit-ready
What Amazon collects, and what is still on you
Amazon collects and remits sales tax on many Canadian orders as a marketplace facilitator. That covers part of the picture, but it does not replace your own GST/HST obligations, and it does not get your input tax credits back.
If you are registered, the GST and HST baked into your Amazon fees, advertising, and freight is recoverable. For most sellers doing real volume into Canada, full registration is the move that turns a cost into a refund.
We reconcile what Amazon collected against what you actually owe, file the returns, and make sure nothing is double-counted or missed.
- GST/HST charged on your Amazon selling fees
- Tax on Amazon advertising and PPC spend
- Tax and duty on inbound freight and customs
- Provincial sales tax in BC, SK, MB, and QC
Becoming a client is simple
- A quick call: tell us where you sell, how you are structured, and what is keeping you up at night. We tell you exactly what we would do and what it costs.
- Onboarding: we set you up in QuickBooks Online and walk you, screen by screen, through the Seller Central and bank access we need. No guessing.
- We clean and catch up: if your books are behind, we work through each month methodically until they are current and correct.
- Ongoing: monthly bookkeeping, GST/HST filing on schedule, and a year-end package that makes your tax return a non-event.
What sellers say
"What used to take me 6+ hours to piece together, they handle in about an hour. They actually understand Amazon."
"They took care of everything: corporate tax, personal tax, GST filing. I just focus on selling now."
"Rob and Marsha have handled tax for my companies and family for over 4 years. Highly recommend."
Straightforward, seller-based pricing
Your fee depends on what you need and how busy your account is: bookkeeping volume, marketplaces, and whether tax and GST/HST filing are included. No long contracts, no surprises.
Amazon seller accounting, answered
Hand the numbers
to people who sell.
Stop explaining Amazon to an accountant who does not get it. Talk to a CPA firm that lives in Seller Central, settlements, and FBA fees every day.