buying out of season items

joeblags

I didn't ask for advice, what I asked was " is there any body else " that does such things. its nice you lot pay those extra taxes though.

Flyonthewall

joeblags wrote: »

My ebay account isn't a business account I sell and buy loads of different items, the Christmas lights I do also use then resell the year after but not with them all. selling any electrical item second hand could be classed as faulty, I tend to make sure all items are sold with a plug even if I didn't buy it with one, I use to do electrics a few years back so I check my items over to make sure they are in good working order. As for paying tax, nope , never. I pay more then enough from my 40 hours a week job. if I was selling large amounts of items then im sure ebay would see me as a business not its only a few each year.

It doesn't matter what ebay see you as, your worry is HMRC who will certainly see you as a business.

ok lets pretend im not a business then , I am just selling last years Christmas lights, how do they prove how much I paid and that im selling them for profit? you CANT

Well, they can. They do it constantly. Every single day. It's up to you to prove costs, as already said. Selling them for profit would be easy to prove. Aside from nobody buys and sells that many lights each year (especially to buy then sell straight away), you're leaving a massive online trail with the buying and selling sites. Plus on one of the biggest forums you've admitted exactly what you're doing and there's more than enough information to link this to the buying and selling, not to mention your computer tracking everything you do.

how do you know this thread isn't one big lie? you read that mr taxman, all this could be a big fat lie of a thread. I honestly don't care what any body on this forum says, over my dead body would I pay any more taxes than I already do why them MPs sit on there !!!! destroying this country and claming for expenses they don't even have.

Yeah, I don't think anyone's going to believe that it's a lie lol.

See, if you pay all your taxes and don't commit fraud you're better than them. However, by not paying you're just as bad as they are. You can't complain at them doing dodgy things when you're as bad and others doing bad things is no excuse for you to.

joeblags wrote: »

I didn't ask for advice, what I asked was " is there any body else " that does such things. its nice you lot pay those extra taxes though.

Yeah, but most people would be grateful that they've been given advice that could save them dealing with HMRC and having to pay out if/when they get found out. You seem to be assuming you've got away with it, but they could come after you at any point and the longer you continue the more evidence they'll have, the more you'll owe and the harder your costs will be to prove if you don't keep proof.

stusarah14

HMRC are not daft they have more powers than most to find the deceivers , i would be to worried to try and hide any other income lol as people like me get found out :-D