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“* Maybe Ebay are just starting to assume that the majority of sellers using the platform will be doing that level of sales?*”
Thinking about it, this actually makes a lot of sense. I read that if you use an ‘online marketplace’ then that service is responsible for doing the accounting. Ebay probably just figured it’s easier to apply vat to all the sales on their platform and then deal with however many sub £85k sellers realise they’ve been incorrectly charged than vice versa.
I guess private, non business sellers doing under £85k might tend to sell higher value items but in terms of numbers of sales, sub £85k sellers must be an infinitesimally small proportion of their business now. I just looked through a few of the sellers I bought stuff from recently (drill bits, nuts and washers, brake pads etc) and found several that have done many thousands of transactions in the last month.