Amazon Fulfillment Center: Shakopee, Minnesota

by TaxJar November 1, 2020

Updated August 9, 2016: This fulfillment center opened in August 2016

Amazon recently opened a new fulfillment center in Shakopee, Minnesota. This fulfillment center stores products like books, CD’s and small electronics, and be machine sortable. What does that mean? According to a quote in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal from Mike Grella, director of economic development at Amazon,”…robots will pick up the items from a multi-level racking system, put them in a tote and deliver them to employees at ergonomic workstations who will pack and ship orders. …The equipment will give Amazon 50 percent more storage capacity than a traditional distribution center.”

Cool technology, right?

But this new facility also means big news for sellers who use Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon service. The Shakopee facility is the first Amazon fulfillment center in Minnesota. For FBA sellers, this might mean that your inventory will be stored in this new facility, giving you sales tax nexus in a brand new state.

Now that the facility is open, here’s what you need to know about the Shakopee, MN Amazon Fulfillment Center.

What Minnesota Online Sellers Need to Know about Sales Tax

Minnesota’s Department of Revenue states that, among many other criteria, “having an office; distribution, sales, or sample room location; warehouse or other place of business in Minnesota, either directly or by a subsidiary” constitutions sales tax nexus. You can read more about nexus in Minnesota on this publication (page 2).

For Amazon FBA sellers, this means that having goods stored in the Shakopee Amazon fulfillment center will mean that you have to do a few things in that state. But first things first:

1.) Determine where your FBA inventory is stored – Now that the Shakopee fulfillment center open, pull either the Inventory Detail Report from your Amazon Seller Central account or login to your TaxJar account and looking for the brown Amazon badge next to the state of Minnesota to find out if your inventory is being stored in Shakopee. Instructions for finding out where your Amazon inventory is stored can be found at “Where does Amazon FBA Give Me Sales Tax Nexus?”

If you find that you have inventory stored in Shakopee, your next steps are:

2.) Register for a Minnesota Sales Tax Permit – If you have sales tax nexus in Minnesota, you need to be registered with the state before you collect sales tax. Here’s a guide to registering for your Minnesota sales tax license.

3.) Set up your Amazon account to collect sales tax in Minnesota – Make sure you’ve set up sales tax collection in Minnesota through your Amazon Seller Central account. Need additional info? Use our Sales Tax 101 for FBA Sellers Guide to set up your sales tax collection settings in Minnesota.

4.) Collect and remit sales tax in Minnesota – Once you’re set up to collect sales tax through Amazon FBA, you’ll need to file sales tax in Minnesota regularly. Check out our Minnesota Sales Tax Guide for Businesses for more about what you need to know about collecting and remitting sales tax in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. Need help keeping your sales tax straight? Try a 30-day free trial of TaxJar!