eBay reporting your sales to HMRC doesn't automatically mean you owe tax. Check your actual position below.
By "marketplace" we mean sites like Vinted, eBay, Depop and Etsy — anywhere you sell online.
The marketplace you sell on \u2014 Vinted, eBay, Depop, Etsy and others work the same way \u2014 may have to send information about your sales to HMRC once the reporting conditions apply.
That does not automatically mean you owe tax.
The £1,000 trading allowance relates to gross trading income — goods bought or made with the intention of selling them.
Selling your own unwanted possessions is different. Ovrilo keeps the two separate.
Yes — eBay, like other UK marketplaces, must report seller information to HMRC once you pass 30 sales or around £1,700 in a calendar year.
Not automatically. Reporting is about HMRC having visibility of your activity, not a tax bill. Whether you actually owe anything depends on whether you're trading — buying or making things specifically to resell for profit — rather than clearing out things you already owned.
Selling things you already owned and used, however valuable, isn't trading income. That distinction matters more than the total amount you've sold.
That alone doesn't tell you whether you have taxable trading income. If you're clearing out clothes, children's items or other belongings you originally bought for yourself, that's different from regularly buying or making things intending to sell them for profit. Ovrilo helps you keep those activities separate.
Keep track as you sell on eBay. Ovrilo separates your personal sales from trading activity and keeps your UK tax-year records organised.
See where your marketplace selling stands and understand what the numbers mean.
Keep everything organised for the tax year — unlimited records, evidence, alerts, exports and history.
Instead of discovering at the end of the year that you've lost track of what was personal, what was trading, and what each marketplace recorded, Ovrilo keeps the record as you go.
Your selling. Your records. Your position.