Vinted and HMRC

Vinted reports some sellers to HMRC. That is not the same as owing tax.

Vinted has to hand HMRC the details of some of its sellers once a year. If you have just been asked in the app for your name, date of birth, address and National Insurance number, that is what has happened. It is the platform meeting an obligation that applies to every online marketplace, not an accusation about you.

Three separate figures circulate about this and almost every page mixes at least two of them up: £1,000, £3,000, and 30 sales or 2,000 euros. They govern three different things. One is a tax-free allowance, one is a threshold for having to file a return, and one is about what the platform sends. The most repeated error on the internet is that the allowance is rising to £3,000. It is not.

Every figure below is quoted from gov.uk or from Vinted's own help centre, attributed where it is quoted, and linked to the page that maintains it. These numbers move and this page will not, so the link matters more than the number.

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Three numbers, one report · quoted from gov.uk and Vinted · checked 3 September 2026

01 / Allowance

£1,000 is the trading allowance, and it has not moved

gov.uk puts the trading allowance at up to £1,000 a year of trading income, and its own wording is that if your annual gross income from these is £1,000 or less, you do not need to tell HMRC, unless one of its exceptions applies. It lists them: trading income from a company you or someone connected to you controls, from a partnership you are a partner in, or from your own employer. Below the £1,000 the allowance normally covers the income outright, and gov.uk is where the cases it cannot cover are set out. It is the only one of the three numbers that is an allowance against tax, and it is the one everybody quotes when they mean one of the others.

02 / Filing

£3,000 is a filing threshold, not a bigger allowance

The government announced on 11 March 2025 that the Self Assessment reporting threshold for trading income will rise from £1,000 to £3,000 gross, in its words “within this parliament”. No start date is named in the announcement, and none had been confirmed when this page was checked. It changes who has to send a return, not what is tax free. The allowance underneath stays at £1,000.

03 / The report

30 sales or 2,000 euros is the point Vinted reports you

Vinted's UK help page names two floors for the calendar year: “Completed 30 sales or more”, or “Sold over €2000 (~£1,700)”. Either one on its own is enough. That sterling figure is an approximation of the euro one, gov.uk prints it as “about £1,700” as well, and it moves with the exchange rate, so the euro amount is the one that decides it. All of this is about what the platform sends, and it says nothing at all about what you owe. It has applied since January 2024.

Vinted asked for your National Insurance number

This is the sequence behind that prompt, in the order it happens. None of it is a penalty, and none of it is HMRC asking about you in particular.

You pass one of the two floors, 30 or more sales of goods in the calendar year, or more than 2,000 euros of sales, whichever arrives first. Staying out of the report needs both to be true at once: fewer than 30 sales and no more than 2,000 euros. A great many pages print it the other way round, as though you had to cross both before anything was sent, which would leave a seller with 80 cheap sales believing they were invisible.
Vinted asks you for the identifying details, gov.uk lists what a platform has to collect from an individual seller: full name, the address where you normally live, date of birth, and a “tax identification number (National Insurance number if you live in the UK)”. Vinted's help page puts the timing as “If you reach the thresholds for reporting, we'll reach out to you by the end of the year”, so the request lands well before anything goes anywhere.
The report goes in January, It covers the calendar year just finished and reaches HMRC in the January after it. gov.uk describes the same timing from the receiving side, as reporting by the following January.
HMRC receives figures, not a bill, What arrives is who you are and what went through the platform. gov.uk's own sentence about a platform passing your details on is “This does not automatically mean that you owe tax.” Nothing is calculated, charged or demanded by the report itself.
Whether you owe anything is a separate, older question, It turns on what you were doing rather than on which site you did it on: selling things you owned and used, or buying and making things in order to sell them. That question predates every reporting rule on this page and is settled somewhere else entirely.

Two things this sequence does not contain. It never asks for a bank login, and it does not begin with an email: the request appears inside your Vinted account. Anything arriving by email and asking you to confirm bank details for HMRC is not this.

The same obligation, and which office ends up with it

One obligation, implemented country by country. Across the EU it is DAC7. The UK is not in DAC7: it runs the OECD model rules through its own digital platform reporting regulations, which land in the same shape. What decides which office ends up with your details is where you are tax resident, established from the address and the tax number the platform holds for you, and not the Vinted domain you happen to list on. gov.uk states the exchange plainly: “HMRC will share your information with your country's tax authority if you live in another country that follows these rules.” So a UK resident selling on vinted.de is still HMRC's, and a seller resident in the EU using vinted.co.uk is still inside DAC7. Checked 3 September 2026.

Where you are tax resident	Who ends up with your details	The rule behind it
United Kingdom	HMRC	The UK's own digital platform reporting regulations, following the OECD model rules rather than DAC7
Germany	Bundeszentralamt für Steuern	The Plattformen-Steuertransparenzgesetz, Germany's enactment of DAC7, in force since 1 January 2023
Any other EU member state	That country's own tax authority, named in its own enactment	DAC7, which every member state has taken into national law

Three things worth knowing about the shape of it. The report covers a calendar year and goes in the January after it, under the UK regulations and under DAC7 alike. The floor of 30 sales or 2,000 euros is a carve-out for sellers of goods only: services, and the rental of property or transport, have no minimum at all. And each platform counts its own sellers, so sales somewhere else are reported by that marketplace and are not added to your Vinted total to decide whether you cross.

Two calendars, and which one Cavri counts on

Platform reporting runs on the calendar year. UK Self Assessment runs 6 April to 5 April. They are different windows over the same selling, and a seller who reads one figure against the other will get two answers and assume one of them is broken. Almost nothing written about Vinted and HMRC flags it.

Cavri takes the window for its own export from the market the account is on: a vinted.co.uk account gets 6 April to 5 April, and the nine other Vinted markets Cavri serves get the calendar year. That is a fact about which dates go in the file, and not a statement about who receives a report or where you are resident. The practical effect is that the tax year picker on the Stats page hands a UK seller the window for their return, which is the wrong window for the platform report. For that one you type 1 January and 31 December into the two custom date boxes beside it. That is not obvious from looking at the screen, which is why it is written down here.

With a range on screen, Cavri shows how many items sold in it and what they took, which is the closest thing to a running position against 30 sales and against 2,000 euros. It is close and it is not the same number. Cavri counts items whose sale date it read back from your Vinted wardrobe; Vinted counts on its own basis and reports its own total. The second floor is stated in euros while a UK seller's takings are in pounds, at a rate Cavri never applies. Near the line, expect the two to disagree, and treat Vinted's figure as the one that decides it. What the export contains, column by column, is set out on Cavri's Vinted and tax page, linked at the foot of this one.

Whether any of it is taxable is a different question again, and an older one than any reporting rule. HMRC separates selling things you owned and used from buying or making things in order to sell them, and it publishes a tool that walks through it. One caveat almost nobody covers: selling a single personal possession for more than £6,000 can raise a capital gains question, which is very rarely a garment and is the honest qualifier on the flat claim that personal items are never taxed either way. Cavri has no view on which side of any of this you are on.

What this page and this software do not do

None of this is tax advice, and Cavri is not an accountant. It is inventory software: it holds no authorisation to act for you, submits nothing and has no line to HMRC at all.
It cannot tell you whether you are trading. That is HMRC's question, and it is answered on HMRC's side rather than in a spreadsheet.
It does not know what Vinted will report about you. Cavri counts sales read back from your wardrobe, which is a good estimate of where you stand and is not the platform's own figure.
It converts no currency. The second floor is written in euros and a UK seller's Cavri totals are in pounds.
It cannot supply a National Insurance number, withdraw a request for one, or lift anything Vinted has restricted on an account.
It only knows what it saw. Postage you paid, packaging, mileage and anything sold away from Vinted are all missing from it.
Every figure here is right on the date this page carries. They move, which is why each one is linked below to the page that maintains it rather than only stated here.

Where each of these numbers is kept

Cavri maintains none of these figures and does not restate them as its own. Each link below is the page that does keep them, and the date on this page is when they were last read off it.

Selling goods or services on a digital platform, HMRC on what a marketplace collects and reports, the two floors, the sentence about a report not automatically meaning you owe tax, and the sharing of details with the tax authority of the country you live in
Vinted: HMRC requirements, what you need to know, Vinted's own account of the two floors, when it contacts affected sellers and what completing a report does not mean
Tax-free allowances on property and trading income, the £1,000 trading allowance, its current figure, and when you are not allowed to use it
The March 2025 announcement of the £3,000 threshold, the government's own wording: a Self Assessment reporting threshold rising to £3,000 gross within this parliament, with tax between £1,000 and £3,000 payable through a new simple online service
Self Assessment: who must send a tax return, who has to file as things stand, which is the page the £3,000 change will land on
Check if you need to tell HMRC about additional income, HMRC's own tool for the decluttering or trading question, which this page will not answer for you
Capital Gains Tax on personal possessions, the chattels rule and the £6,000 point that the flat claim about personal items leaves out
Council Directive (EU) 2021/514, known as DAC7, the EU half of the same obligation, where the 30 sales and 2,000 euro carve-out is written, and the reporting of sellers by the state they are resident in
Plattformen-Steuertransparenzgesetz, the German enactment, and the law behind the German row of the table above

Questions about Vinted and HMRC

Does Vinted report me to HMRC?

Only if you pass one of two floors in a calendar year: 30 or more sales of goods, or sales of more than 2,000 euros. Either one on its own is enough. Staying out of the report means both being true at once, fewer than 30 sales and no more than 2,000 euros. Below that, nothing about you is sent. The rule started in January 2024 and applies to every online marketplace rather than to Vinted alone.

Why did Vinted ask for my National Insurance number?

Because you crossed one of those floors, and the report cannot identify you without it. gov.uk lists what a platform collects from an individual seller: full name, the address where you normally live, date of birth, and a tax identification number, which is your National Insurance number if you live in the UK. Vinted says it will “reach out to you by the end of the year”, and the request arrives inside your Vinted account rather than by an email out of the blue.

Is the tax-free allowance going up to £3,000?

No, and this is the most repeated error on the subject. The £1,000 trading allowance is unchanged. The £3,000 figure comes from an announcement on 11 March 2025 that the Self Assessment reporting threshold for trading income will rise from £1,000 to £3,000 gross “within this parliament”, with no start date named. It decides who has to send a return, not what is tax free. Between £1,000 and £3,000 of trading income you could still owe tax on it, and the announcement says that would be payable through “a new simple online service” rather than a full return.

Does being reported mean I owe tax?

No. They are separate questions and the report answers neither of them. Whether you owe anything turns on whether you were selling things you owned and used or buying and making things in order to sell them, and HMRC publishes a tool for exactly that. Vinted says the same from its own side: completing a seller report “doesn't mean there's an obligation to pay taxes on your Vinted sales.”

I live in the UK but sell on vinted.de. Who gets told?

HMRC, in the end. Which office receives your details follows where you are tax resident, worked out from the address and tax number the platform holds for you, and not from the domain the listing sat on. gov.uk puts the exchange this way: “HMRC will share your information with your country's tax authority if you live in another country that follows these rules.” It runs in both directions, so listing abroad does not move you out of the UK rules and a seller resident elsewhere is not moved out of theirs by using vinted.co.uk.

How do I know how many sales I am on this year?

Vinted's own count is the one that decides it and the one it will report. If your wardrobe is in Cavri, the Stats page shows items sold and takings for any range you type, so 1 January to 31 December gives you a running position against both floors. Use the two custom date boxes for that rather than the tax year picker: on a UK account the picker gives 6 April to 5 April, which is the window for your return and not the window the report is counted in.

Does the £1,000 allowance cover selling my own old clothes?

The allowance is aimed at trading income, and selling possessions you owned and used is often not trading at all, so for most wardrobe clear-outs it is not the thing that settles the question. What HMRC asks is what you were doing, not how much came in.

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The record is far easier to keep than to reconstruct.

The free plan is enough to start and no card is needed. The one thing worth doing before a year closes is entering what each item cost you, because Vinted has never known that number and no import can supply it.

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