Our Achievements and Our Team

Our Achievements

 Number of Sales Tax Returns Filed (US & Canada)Total Reported Sales (US$ million)Amount of Sales Tax Remitted (US$ million)
20245,504850.247.1
20235,102810.445.32
20224,85074038.2
20213,70073535.1

CASE STUDY

In 2020, our team assisted a Chinese international e-commerce company dealing with beauty products to successfully collaborate with Deloitte LLP in the US and Canada to completely restructure the company to achieve tax optimization. 

In 2020, through the Florida Department of Revenue’s Voluntary Disclosure Agreement (VDA), our organization collaborated with a soon-to-be public Chinese international e-commerce company to negotiate with the Department of Revenue to successfully reduce the cumulative sales tax payable over the past 3 years from US$1.6 million to US$300,000.

In 2019, we provided professional advice and recommendations to a well-known e-commerce company in response to an audit and appeal by the Massachusetts Department of State Taxation, successfully reducing tax penalties by over $60,000.

In 2017, we successfully applied for exemptions from all sales and use tax and corporate income tax debts and penalties for several top Amazon sellers through the Voluntary Disclosure Agreement administered by the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC), totaling over $25 million in prior years.

TEN Fascinating Amazon Statistics in 2019

  • 9 out of 10 consumers price check a product on Amazon. 
  • 2% of Echo owners have purchased a product via Alexa. 
  • Amazon sells more than 12 million products. 
  • Amazon sells over 1.1 million home improvement products. 
  • 95 million people have Amazon Prime memberships in the US. 
  • $1.4K is the average spent by Amazon Prime members each year. 
  • FBA gives sellers a 30-50% increase in sales. 
  • Amazon shipped over 5 billion items worldwide in 2017. 
  • More than 50% of all Amazon sales come from third-party sellers. 
  • 80% of sellers also sell on other platforms outside of Amazon.

Our Team

Our team is composed of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) in the United States and Chartered Professional Accountants (CPAs) in Canada, with dual professional qualifications in the field of North American taxation. We focus on serving cross-border e-commerce companies, and are deeply involved in sales tax, income tax and other related tax compliance matters in the United States and Canada. With many years of practical experience in serving cross-border e-commerce clients, we are not only familiar with the differences in tax laws and regulations in various states/provinces, but also have a deeper understanding of platform operating models, data collection and aggregation, the establishment of US and Canadian companies and their impact on taxes. We are committed to providing cross-border e-commerce companies with practical tax planning and compliance solutions to help customers achieve steady growth in global business under the premise of compliance.

Kevin (L. H.) Huang
Certified Public Accountant
Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
IRS Certifying Acceptance Agent

Kevin is the founder of Vataxus Consulting Inc. Prior to establishing Vataxus, he served as a Financial Reporting Manager at Ally Financial (formerly GMAC, a General Motors financing company), a Senior Accountant at Deloitte Canada, and a Commercial Banking Manager at Citibank in Hong Kong. Kevin is a Certified Public Accountant and an IRS Certifying Acceptance Agent. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA).

Frances (X.F.) Huang
Chartered Professional Accountant, Canada

Frances is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) registered in the Province of Ontario, Canada. She has over 15 years of experience in financial planning, accounting and taxation. Frances holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Jinan University and a Diploma in Accounting from McGill University.

Hins Mak
Tax Accountant
 

Hins has a Bachelor Degree of Business Administration in Information Management from the City University of Hong Kong and over 5 years of tax and finance experience.

Ying Wang
Tax Accountant
 

Ying graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Actuarial Science. She has over eight years of experience in sales tax in the US and Canada and is currently pursuing the Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant program.

Siqi Yang
Tax Accountant
 

Siqi graduated from Brock University with a Master Degree of Professional Accounting. Siqi has practical experience in accounting, Canadian and US sales tax and income tax, as well as business formation and incorporation in the US. Â