I have been doing a bit of e-baying recently, for my own use. Got rid of a lot of dive kit I no longer use and flogged some older lenses and bought newer ones. So far so good, not had any disappointments. I am suprised that I got as much as I did for some of the dive kit, bought a 15l cylinder 10 years ago for £99 and flogged it for £126 a week or two ago (they are now over £200 new), well chuffed.

I've rarely failed to make a good profit with dive gear when I've found it, even old and uncertified stuff still fetches good money.

I found three bespoke-tailored suits yesterday (it would've been four but one had some tiny holes in the back of the knee), got the lot for £50, should fetch at least £200 each. Even if they don't sell immediately I ain't bothered, they fit me like they were tailored for me and I've also got two regular customers who should fit into them with no problem.

Back on the diet theme: this weekend will mainly be taken up with preparing cabbage and other vegetables and starting the fermentation process for the GAPS diet

Do you declare you profits to HMRC?

does he, legally, need to?

are you a tax lawyer now?

He implied he does buy and then sell stuff regularly, which could constitute trading. HMRC do review eBay traders.

Hellish operation to try and claw back some scraps of revenue, are eBay UK an actual UK based company, do they have to respond to information requests on registered members, are Paypal a UK registered company and do they have to respond too, if not then good luck in trying to find hundreds of thousands of UK individuals who sell regularly on eBay under pseudonyms AND then try and prove that they weren't just emptying their wardrobes on a regular basis.

FWIW, I sell goods online (not eBay) as "additional income" and declare it via an online submission each year (I've been a case for "special interest" in the past and don't want them sniffing around my door again), you'd be surprised to learn that I haven't make a profit from my sales, not once, no tax to pay.

If you'd bothered to take even the slightest notice of previous posts in the past, you may have noted that I've been self-employed for the past 15 years and as I've previously stated, my income (from whatever source), is declared. Not that it's any fooking business of yours anyway

Remember, every woe Dally has is someone else's fault, he's always looking for someone to blame.

Dally, what do you do, how much do you earn, how much tax do you pay compared to the hand-outs you get?

Self-employed so earnings vary. Pay reasonable amounts in tax - certainly much more than most people. But as you know I have a vested interest in people paying their taxes.

Self-employed so earnings vary. Pay reasonable amounts in tax - certainly much more than most people. But as you know I have a vested interest in people paying their taxes.

Self-employed so earnings vary. Pay reasonable amounts in tax - certainly much more than most people. But as you know I have a vested interest in people paying their taxes.

Self-employed so earnings vary. Pay reasonable amounts in tax - certainly much more than most people. But as you know I have a vested interest in people paying their taxes.