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New Ebay Seller, Is It Worth Upgrading to a Business Account?

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  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,004 Forumite
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    bilal707, we can give you help with your homework, just ask.
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  • bilal707
    bilal707 Posts: 5 Forumite
    LOL really strapped?
  • bxboards
    bxboards Posts: 1,711 Forumite
    martindow wrote: »
    If sales continue to build you may reach the VAT threshold and be obliged to register and collect VAT from your sales to pay HMRC.

    You'd hope so, but there a loads of sellers doing 50k a month but who are not VAT registered. I know because I asked if I could claim back VAT and they had no VAT number.

    Also loads of HK / China sellers warehousing from the UK who are not VAT registered but should be. Quite amazed Ebay allows them to exceed 81k annual without insisting on this really, as VAT registration isn't optional, but they seem to get away with it.
  • ballisticbrian
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    HK / China sellers warehousing from the UK
    Can you explain how this business model works as I'm interested in finding out. It's just that it's so much cheaper postage to get thick items over 25mm sent from abroad, I don't know why people would bother basing here to send here.
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  • bxboards
    bxboards Posts: 1,711 Forumite
    Can you explain how this business model works as I'm interested in finding out..

    I can't as I'm not a Chinese seller. However you can find loads of Chinese / HK sellers who list an overseas business address, but use a UK warehouse, but don't provide a VAT number.
  • ballisticbrian
    ballisticbrian Posts: 4,004 Forumite
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    I assumed that they were just freight forwarding companies so they wouldn't be re-selling the items but merely posting the items as and when provided with addresses.
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  • RFW
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    I don't know why people would bother basing here to send here.
    Speed of delivery.
    As for tax, etc. They should be paying UK taxes if they're stored and sent from the UK. Sadly there are (some legal) ways around it and the sellers rely on the British authorities not being too interested in chasing them for a few hundred quid. It's us poor saps doing it all legit that end up taking the strain from all sides. We have to compete with the overseas sellers and pay the relevant taxes.
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