Vinted & eBay Tax Tracker UK | £1,000 Rule Spreadsheet

Two rules, two calendars, one spreadsheet — and no more panic about "being reported to HMRC".

UK online sellers face two unrelated thresholds: the £1,000 trading allowance (tax year, trading sales only, all platforms combined) and the platform-reporting rule (calendar year, all sales, 30 sales or ~€2,000 per platform). Confusing them is why so many sellers panic over letters that aren't tax bills — gov.uk itself confirms that being reported by a platform does not automatically mean tax is owed.

Seller's Ledger UK tracks both correctly:

– Sales Log (1,000 formula-covered rows) with the personal-possession vs trading dropdown that decides which rule each sale counts toward

– Purchases & Costs tab for stock and expense evidence

– Dashboard with separate traffic-light engines for each threshold, amber warnings before you cross either, and settings cells so year and threshold values roll over without formula edits

– Year at a Glance monthly summary and a Platform Fees reference (all five platforms verified against official fee pages, August 2026, source-linked)

– "HMRC and You" — a ~2,000-word plain-English explainer of the trading allowance, platform reporting, Self Assessment dates, and what an HMRC nudge letter actually means. Every claim cited to gov.uk (checked August 2026); source table included.

Works in Excel, Google Sheets and LibreOffice — no macros. It doesn't file anything with HMRC or calculate tax; it keeps the records and shows you where you stand.

Built with AI assistance and human-directed research; every tax fact is checked against the cited official gov.uk/HMRC source.

Not tax, accounting, or financial advice. Support: mybritdesign@gmail.com