It is your sales, not your profit
Thresholds count your taxable turnover: what your buyers pay you, before you take off what the stock cost or any fees. Second-hand sellers can reach them long before their profit looks big.
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VAT registration threshold checker
Check how close your sales are to your country's VAT or GST registration threshold, and at your current pace, when you would go over.
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VAT registration
Under the threshold
68.9%
£62,000 of £90,000 · £28,000 to go
At your pace you reach it in about 6.2 months.
You must register for VAT if your taxable turnover goes over £90,000 in any 12-month period. Under the margin scheme the full selling price counts.
Guide
How VAT thresholds work
Rolling or calendar year
In the UK the threshold works on any rolling 12 months, so check every month, not just at your year end. Other countries use the calendar year, or last year and this year together, as the checker shows for each.
What happens when you go over
You must register within a set time (in the UK, 30 days after the end of the month you went over) and charge VAT from the date given. Registering late can mean paying the VAT you should have charged out of your own pocket.
Plan before you get there
- Check whether your goods can use the margin scheme.
- Work out how prices change once you add VAT.
- Talk to an accountant about the timing.
How ProfitClerk works this out for you
- The tax centre: forms, set-aside, deadlinesProfitClerk's tax centre fills your country's tax forms from your eBay sales and shows tax to put aside, thresholds, deadlines and tax-year exports.
- VAT margin scheme and your stock bookUse the second-hand VAT margin scheme with ProfitClerk: VAT worked out item by item on your margin, a stock book for the tax year and a CSV export.
- Set your country, currency and tax profileChoose your home country, reporting currency, tax year, VAT or GST set-up and eBay account type, so every ProfitClerk report and export fits where you live.
Questions
What is the UK VAT registration threshold?
The checker uses the threshold for the country you pick. In the UK it is £90,000 of taxable turnover in any rolling 12 months, or if you expect to go over it in the next 30 days alone.
Do second-hand sales count towards the threshold?
Yes, the full selling price counts, even for goods you would later sell on the margin scheme. Personal items you sell for less than you paid are not trading income, but stock bought to resell is.
Do sales on every marketplace count?
Yes. Add up all your business sales, on every site and offline, not each platform on its own.
Can I register before I reach the threshold?
Yes, voluntarily. It can help if you buy a lot with VAT you could reclaim, but you then have to charge VAT on your sales.
Get warned before you hit a threshold
ProfitClerk adds up your sales across every eBay account, against your country's VAT and tax thresholds, and tells you when you are getting close.
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