Amazon quietly moved where your advertising invoices live, and the timing (right around tax season) caught a lot of sellers off guard. It matters more than a menu change sounds, because those invoices are worth real money back on your GST/HST return.
Where they went
As of January 2025, your advertising invoices are under Reports, then Advertising Reports in Seller Central. They are no longer grouped with your regular seller fee invoices in the Payments section. If you went looking in the old spot and came up empty, that is why.
Why the actual invoice matters, not the dashboard
Your PPC spend is a legitimate business expense, but to claim it properly you need the real invoices, not a screenshot of your campaign dashboard. Two reasons:
- Input tax credits. If you are registered for GST/HST, your Amazon.ca advertising invoices show the tax charged on your ad spend, and you claim that back. Spend $20,000 on PPC across a year in a 13 percent province and that is roughly $2,600 in HST you can recover, on top of deducting the ad spend itself.
- Audit proof. CRA has been leaning harder on advertising claims for Amazon sellers, and a dashboard summary will not satisfy an auditor. The invoice will. Keep them filed by month and marketplace.
The bookkeeping habit that saves you
Record each monthly invoice in two parts: the net ad spend goes to your advertising expense account, and the GST/HST portion goes to your input-tax-credit account, with the total matched against the charge on your statement. The most common mistake is booking the whole gross amount as expense and never splitting out the tax, which quietly throws away your ITC.
One trap if you sell on both marketplaces
Amazon.ca invoices are in Canadian dollars and the GST/HST on them is claimable. Amazon.com invoices are in US dollars and carry no Canadian tax to claim, so you convert those to CAD at the Bank of Canada rate for the invoice date. Sponsored Brand and Sponsored Display charges can also be invoiced separately from Sponsored Products, so do not stop at the first file you find. The practical move is to download everything monthly, because Amazon's interface gets slow over long date ranges and older invoices sometimes vanish.
We put the click-by-click download steps and the full bookkeeping breakdown on our firm's site: Advertising Invoices for Amazon Sellers: New Location.
Keeping Amazon's ever-shifting reports straight is half of clean seller books. That is what we do, and we share the plain-English version in the newsletter.