" their dictats are adopted by each of the EU member states." - incorrect, only 22 members of the EU are members of the OECD. the OECD has member countries from across the globe; it is not, nor has it ever been, an EU organisation. I presume you make this assumption because its headquarters are in France.
"so a Europe based quango is allowed to dictate to the UK." - First it is not a quango (Quasi Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation), it is an international organization comprised of member countries with a focus on economic policy and development. All decisions are taken democratically; no country or body dictates anything.
"My main point in all of this though, is that tax has already been paid on the goods when they were new in the form of VAT." - you are registered as a private seller therefore you will not be liable to pay any tax on your sales as it is not an income.
"This is nothing more than a tax grab" - It will only impact people trading illegally who are not paying their due tax liabilities; so again it will not affect you as a private seller.
"eBay themselves have already conned everyone by charging Buyers a % for Buyer Protection (that doesn't give then anything more protection than they previously had)." - correct, however eBay were previously 'underwriting' the costs of this service paid for through fees. Now that buyers don't have final value selling fees they have obviously decided those costs have to be met from somewhere - hence the BPF. For the record I am not defending the BPF, I believe they should have stuck with fees for private sellers.
"They say this doesn't affect Sellers, but that's a lie as I've had to lower my asking prices so that the price is still attractive to Buyers." - but you can afford to lower your prices by the amount of fees you were previously paying and still make the same amount of money from the sale as you were before.
