Tax on selling whisky

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Just wondered if anyone can help me. I bought a few bottles of whisky a while ago which I've recently sold, it's not a great deal of money so didn't occur to me at the time that some tax may be due so I'm after someone to give me some advise.
I see online that whisky is seen as a 'wasting asset' so tax isn't due but I couldn't figure out if this was just on casks or on the same of bottles as well.
The other question is if tax is due would it be classed as income or a capital gain? As if it's the latter it will below the threshold,
Thanks
I see online that whisky is seen as a 'wasting asset' so tax isn't due but I couldn't figure out if this was just on casks or on the same of bottles as well.
The other question is if tax is due would it be classed as income or a capital gain? As if it's the latter it will below the threshold,
Thanks
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If your bottles were just personal possessions that you decided to sell for more than you paid for them, and there weren't many of them, no income tax is due. We can all sell things we own and don't want, and nobody is going to raise an eyebrow at the tax office.
However if you're buying and selling them as some part of a trade or business - repeatedly buying and selling stuff for profit - then you could stray into income tax territory. The fact that you do it from home rather than having a market stall wouldn't stop you being considered as running a 'trade', if that's what you're doing.