30 items a year

[gillrecords]

Is any one else stopping selling because they've reached their 30 item a year limit and don't want to disclose their national insurance number, personally I think ebay should pull the platform from the UK if the Government don't lift or remove this stupid bit of legislation, See you all in 12 months. 

[jonatjonatjonat]

Do report back on what you get told

[little-rascal-77]

They will send you a transcript to your email after the chat, be interesting how yours compares to mine.

[dougie2582]

They said

So basically providing your National Insurance Number to eBay is part of the identity verification process required by UK regulations for sellers, it doesn't mean that you'll be taxed. eBay is required to report your sales information to HMRC if you sell more than 30 items in a year or earn over £1,700. However, any decision about tax liability is made by HMRC based on your overall circumstances, not just the number of sales on eBay. If your sales are just from personal items that you originally bought for yourself, they are usually considered taxable. But if you're selling to make profit or running it like a business, then HMRC may view it differently. So, disclosing your NIN doesn't trigger a tax automatically, it just allows eBay to comply with reporting requirements.

Since you're just selling personal items that you previously owned and are simply decluttering, this is not considered business activity. Even though you've sold 39 items and made 728 in total, that amount is below £1,700 reporting threshold, so there's nothing to worry about.

[jonatjonatjonat]

Most of that is correct.

If your sales are just from personal items that you originally bought for yourself, they are usually considered taxable

I assume you meant not taxable above

Even though you've sold 39 items and made 728 in total, that amount is below £1,700 reporting threshold, so there's nothing to worry about.

As stated earlier on your post. It’s over 30 items or over £1,750. So 39 items (provided they were in the calendar year) would trigger the requirement 

[dougie2582]

Yes its still rather concerning adn wil put people off from selling anything.

I think government kinda messed up here and it wil damage ebay also. 

In the long run it probably harmed more than it solved.

[sml192]

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@jonatjonatjonat wrote:

As stated earlier on your post. It’s over 30 items or over £1,750. So 39 items (provided they were in the calendar year) would trigger the requirement 

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Just to be pedantic, it is when you reach either of the thresholds not when you exceed them and it is sales transactions not items.  

[dougie2582]

until you sell £1,750 then you should be safe regardless how many items you sold

[jonatjonatjonat]

Unless you make 30 sales of course. In which case they will also ask you for your NI.

its 30 sales OR £1,750 worth of sales.

[dougie2582]

Yes after 30 sales you have to declare it but you wont have to pay no tax when the amount is less than £1750 regardless how many items you made. You need to made at least 1750 .

[*devils.advocate*]

And if I may also be a pedant.

It's 30 items or the equivalent of 2000 Euros.

It'll depend on the exchange rate at either the time of reporting or at a set date (no idea which will apply).

[papso22]

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@dougie2582 wrote:

Yes after 30 sales you have to declare it but you wont have to pay no tax when the amount is less than £1750 regardless how many items you made. You need to made at least 1750 .

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Wrong, wrong and wrong.

1. You don't declare it, Ebay reports it.

2. The £,1750 (€2,000) is not a tax threshold. 

3. You might have to pay tax for sales between £1,000 and £1,750, if they are business sales.

[jonatjonatjonat]

No.

you don’t have to declare anything.

at 30 sales or £1,750 (approx) eBay will ask for your NI number

you could make far more than £1,750 and you still wouldn’t have to pay any tax. It depends what you are selling.

if it is just your old second hand goods, you could sell £3,000, £4,000 etc in a year and tax wouldn’t likely apply.

[liz_1741]

It wont matter anyway if only a small amount is sold.

[dougie2582]

I just chatted to someone on ebay and that is what they told me and they obviously are not business sales.

[jonatjonatjonat]

You could sell thousands.

if it’s your own second hand goods, in all likelihood, you will not owe any tax.

you don’t even have to declare it because there’s nothing to declare.

only exception would be any sale of an item or a collection over £6,000 where capital gains tax applies.

[jonatjonatjonat]

And you were told previously not to believe them.

for one, eBay customer services are not tax advisors.

for two, going on post 83 - it wasn’t what you were told anyway!

[dougie2582]

for how much I sold it wil not effect anything

[jonatjonatjonat]

Isn’t this a waste of a Saturday evening for all involved.

[dougie2582]

I dont know. I was told that I wont be taxed on nothing even if it was just someone who works at ebay. They should know the regulations and they dont really need to be tasx advisors. Its not like I make thousands.