Chile: informal transactions as share of total e-commerce 2019-2020, by seller origin

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F. Watty,
Jan 7, 2025
During a survey fielded in Chile in the third quarter of 2020, around 12 percent of online purchases reported by the responding internet users were considered by the source as informal shopping on Chilean websites. The share of informal shopping on foreign e-commerce platforms in Chile amounted to 11 percent in the same period.

Informal e-commerce transactions as a percentage of total online transactions in Chile from 3rd quarter 2019 to 3rd quarter 2020, by origin of the seller

CharacteristicDomesticInternational
Q3 2020 12% 11%
Q2 2020 23% 14%
Q1 2020 15% 11%
Q4 2019 16% 14%
Q3 2019 6% 26%
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Created with Highcharts 7.2.2Share of e-commerce transactions deemed informal6%6%16%16%15%15%23%23%12%12%26%26%14%14%11%11%14%14%11%11%DomesticInternationalQ3 2019Q4 2019Q1 2020Q2 2020Q3 2020
0%5%10%15%20%25%30%

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Release date

December 2020

Region

Chile

Survey time period

Q3 2019 to Q3 2020

Number of respondents

3,800 internet users*

Age group

18-75 years

Special properties

Does not include the tourism and entertainment segments

Supplementary notes

* Number of respondents in the 3rd quarter of 2020. The source does not specify the type of study conducted.

According to the source, informal transactions refer to retail purchases that do not comply with VAT payment rules and other legal obligations. Such transactions may involve either informal entrepreneurs or formal companies that fail to provide a corresponding slip in their digital sales.

Characteristics such as "place of purchase, method of payment, method of shipment and purchase intention" were used to determine "which transactions had a high likelihood of being informal."

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