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    eBay is forced to add 20% VAT to its fees | Daily Mail Online

    Online marketplace eBay has started charging 20 per cent Value Added Tax on its fees to tens of thousands of businesses selling on its UK platform.

    The measure, effective from August 1, follows a restructuring by eBay resulting in UK customers no longer contracting with its Luxembourg entity, eBay Europe, but with eBay (UK) Limited.

    Alan Pearce, VAT partner at accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg, explained: ‘This change should not adversely affect the vast majority of VAT-registered sellers as the additional tax being charged by eBay should be recoverable via the seller’s VAT returns.

    OK lets see it repeated with the other sites...
    Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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    Better late than never

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      #3
      Will that extra 20% go to the UK government or to ebay via ebay luxembourg?

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        #4
        Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
        Will that extra 20% go to the UK government or to ebay via ebay luxembourg?
        We have to pay Juncker's drinks bill somehow!
        Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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          #5
          Good news

          How much does he drink? £350million a week?
          …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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            #6
            Originally posted by WTFH View Post
            How much does he drink? £350million a week?
            no but we have to pay for him to fly to the bar.
            Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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              #7
              Originally posted by WTFH View Post
              How much does he drink? £350million a week?
              He only drinks the blood of the Greek poor.

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                #8
                Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
                He only drinks the blood of the Greek poor.
                Racist!
                "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                  #9
                  So eBay just became 20% more expensive to use for personal use? Hurrah.
                  Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                  I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                  Originally posted by vetran
                  Urine is quite nourishing

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                    Originally posted by d000hg View Post
                    So eBay just became 20% more expensive to use for personal use? Hurrah.
                    No.

                    The fees it charges to business sellers who are not VAT registered will now include VAT, when they didn't in the past.

                    Personal sellers already pay that VAT on their fees.
                    It does not affect buyers.

                    From eBay (not from the Daily Mail): https://sellercentre.ebay.co.uk/busi...17/vat-changes
                    …Maybe we ain’t that young anymore

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