Tax Information

[ddyates10]

Getting the red give Tax information message what eventually happens if you do not reply, i am selling my collection of football programmes collected over 30 years ago, not buying and selling, but am under the £1700 total though it is way over 30 items 

[*vyolla*]

If you wish to continue to sell on eBay you need to provide them with your National Insurance Number.

It's £1740 worth of sales or 30 items, whatever you reach first.

[papso22]

If you don't provide your NINO ebay will still provide your sales data to HMRC,  possibly red flagged as non compliant. 

They will also freeze any pending payouts.

[ddyates10]

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@ddyates10 wrote:

Getting the red give Tax information message what eventually happens if you do not reply, i am selling my collection of football programmes collected over 30 years ago, not buying and selling, but am under the £1700 total though it is way over 30 items 

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Any idea when they need it by is it 1st Jan

[*vyolla*]

They need it now if they've asked for it, else it'll affect your selling account and any pending payments.

[arkwebus]

Of course even though eBay sends your data to HMRC that does not mean that HMRC will even contact you!

If they do and you are only selling your own stuff then you will "simply" have to convince them of that and you will owe nothing.  In the end they may ask you to complete a tax return where you would enter the profit as "NIL". 

I very much doubt that HMRC will bother with any serious investigations of small sellers in any event.  They may pick up on some larger unreporting sellers [many of us feel we can probably do so too] and it will be there that HMRC will investigate.  @ddyates10 

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