UK Resident being charged VAT on used item purchases

[waterfrontjack]

I am an American living in Scotland and I wish to sell some items on eBay. I have a UK registered eBay account with my UK address. It did ask me my nationality, which I put down as USA.

When I attempt to sell items it adds VAT to my listings, which I understand would make sense if I were still living in the States and trying to sell items in the UK. But I am a UK resident (have been for three years, plan on staying permanently) selling a used item I originally bought in the UK and paid VAT on when I first purchased it.

Am I just stuck with this because I'm an American citizen and it will always assume I should have VAT added to my sales?

[jckl1957 · Accepted solution]

Are you sure it is VAT (which is 20%) and not the Buyer Protection Fee - which is considerably less.

How much did you actually list the item for?

[red_magpie]

Why didn't you ask this question on the account concerned, instead of opening a new one today?

Trying to suggest answers to questions with minimal information is hard enough anyway. It isn't a great incentive even to try if you go out of your way to conceal your normal public pages, which could have given us some clue to the problem. You have every right to your privacy, but if you're so reluctant to disclose any information you may do better to ask eBay customer support, which has full access to your account info.

[waterfrontjack]

That was it thanks!

[waterfrontjack]

This is the account concerned. I moved to the UK from the USA and used my USA account for a long time, and then when I realized that VAT was being collected on it I created this new account with my UK address. My confusion stemmed from the fact that even with this new account it appeared I was getting charged VAT (which I now realize was the wrong assumption). I immediately came here to try and figure it out, which I now have.

Not about privacy at all. Not reluctant to disclose a thing.