Amazon's 2025 UK and EU Fee Changes Explained

In brief: the Amazon fee changes for 2025 in the UK and EU, announced on 16 December 2024, mostly took effect on 1 February 2025. Average FBA fees for parcels and oversize items fell in the UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain, the oversize price list was cut from 28 weight-and-size bands to 17, and the minimum referral fee for heavy items that can't be machine-sorted dropped from £25 to £20. In the other direction, Amazon adjusted a long list of storage and handling fees, extended the aged inventory surcharge to stock stored 241–270 days, and confirmed that products with unusually high return rates would face a returns processing fee from 1 February 2025.

UK fee changes from 1 February 2025

Change	Stores
Average parcel and oversize fees lowered	UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain
Oversize priced as a base rate plus a flat charge per extra kg; bands reduced from 28 to 17	All European stores
Envelope and Low-price FBA fees realigned to costs	UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain
All FBA fees realigned to costs	Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium
New weight-based small envelope tier	—

Other fee changes from 1 February 2025

• Heavy, non-sortable FBA items: minimum referral fee cut from £25 (€25) to £20 (€20).
• Storage and handling: monthly storage, the storage utilisation surcharge, the Pan-EU low-inventory cost coverage fee, the Pan-EU oversize surcharge, prep fees, and fees for returning, disposing of or liquidating stock were all updated across Europe.
• Aged stock: the aged inventory surcharge now starts at 241 days rather than later.
• Returns processing fee: after a postponement, it started on 1 February 2025 for products with high return rates.

Amazon also said its two launch-discount schemes for new sellers and new FBA products would get bigger discounts for selected product types from 15 January 2025.

A worked example

A seller with 300 units of a slow seller that has sat in FBA for eight months now pays the aged inventory surcharge on it from day 241. If that surcharge were £0.50 a unit a month, holding the stock for another month would cost about £150 — often more than the margin on the units. Clearing or removing aged stock before the surcharge starts becomes a bookkeeping decision as much as a stock one.

What it means for your bookkeeping

• Split storage from fulfilment in your accounts. In 2025 the cuts were mostly on fulfilment and the rises mostly on storage and handling, so combining them hides what changed. Separate accounts show both movements.

• Watch aged stock. Surcharges for old inventory add up quickly. A regular look at stock age alongside storage fees helps decide when removal or liquidation is cheaper.

• Mixed rates in February. Settlements spanning 1 February 2025 include some fees at old rates and some at new; that's expected.

• VAT on UK fees stays at 20%. Rate changes don't change the VAT treatment; reclaim it if you're VAT-registered.

• Where it shows up. New rates appear in the fee lines of each settlement — see reconciling an Amazon settlement and Amazon FBA bookkeeping.

How TrueBooks helps

TrueBooks posts fulfilment, storage, surcharge and removal fees from every settlement to separate accounts in Xero with the right UK VAT, so you can see which way each type of fee moved. See the Amazon Xero integration.